mbed board

I remember those days struggling to write a piece of software on an embedded system, holding a balance scale between cost and hardware experimentation. a microcontroller on a bread board, a programmer which could burn my code, a perfect piece of compiler-linker-programmer. Now things have changed. better prototyping boards are on the loose, one such is the mbed prototyping board, I've loved it since the first I've used it, the best part is you don't have to worry about having a programmer and hit your head to build stuff. Simple stuff. copy and paste the code, you are done!

Having a couple of these at home makes stuff easier.

begins!

Okay.. Hopefully, i am going to start feeding this blog during my Group project and dissertation as well! Oops, plagiarism! okay lets see! anyways, i can avoid that. the first post will be about flocking a group of robots, we're using the LEGO NXT 2.0 bots, interfaced and programmed in Java. things get more worse, when we use the Vicon system. and My dissertation is about the Fire fighting home robot.

Lego NXT and leJOS

I've always loved the Logo kits in my childhood.. now they are back with a bang with LEGO NXT, all they have is a 32-bit micrprocesssor, huge memory, 3 servos and loads of sensors to play around. but the programming interface is really child-like with drag n drop, and people are not gonna sit around with that, there comes a new hack, the lego software is replaced by a Java virtual machine firm ware and the code can be written in Java. "leJOS".