Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02761
To: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:25:33 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Contest and Arena group
Chiu-Yuan Fang wrote:
>
> Bob Shannon wrote:
> >
> > Steven Bolt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Chiu-Yuan Fang wrote:
> > I think this next contest is a bit more ambitious, and will produce
> > even more BEAM evolution than the last one did. Chiu's new contest
> > seems to give the designer a lot more freedom to innovate!
>
> That's the plan. I'm hoping my contest's will progressively become more
> "involved" with each one expanding the imaginations of our list members a little
> more than the last.
>
> But...you can't please everyone.
>
> > Several people have already begun working on an Arena based robot
> > evolution program, and it seems rather unfair for the BEAM list to first
> > reject the discussion of this 'new approach' but then adopt the
> > terminology.
>
> Is there a web page about this "Arena" group? What uP/language is being used?
No web page yet, we are still hammering out the basics of the standard
chassis.
A web page will be created, but probably not until after the BEAM
contest!
But the microprocessors are Microchip PIC 16F84's because of the very
low
cost envolved in building the programmer, and freely available
programming
tools.
In all probability there will be two different 'standard platform' kits,
for
three or more different competitive events. The target kit cost is
under $100
with a very simple programmer included.
As far as programming languages go, assembler is probaly best, but to
make this more accessable, PBASIC is also a very good choice. There
will be no limitations that preclude using C compilers or other
development tools however.
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