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Pertinent Conferences

-	JavaOne 2008 May 5-9, SFO

Related technologies

-	Cogmation robot simulator and code foundry for Mac, Linux, Windows
-	JXTA community project
-	JDDAC (Java Distributed Data Acquisition and Control)
-	Practical embedded Java book

Blogs

-	Bruce Boyes
-	Mark Polishook

Worth a Look:

-	JRoboOp at the University of Naples Prisma Lab
-	Lego PackBot - impressive NXT bot by Brian Davis
-	RTJ at DevX - Go Inside the Java Real-Time System (article)
-	Robots.net - fresh robotics news from around the world
-	Robot magazine
-	Vex Robotics - great-looking parts such as these beefy treads, gears, and more.

Welcome to the Robotics community

// Java.net after the Oracle purchase?

Who can say what Java.net will look like after the Oracle/Sun merger? At JavaOne a group of Java.net community leaders decided it was a good idea to start a project and community of interested parties to discuss and communicate (among ourselves and with Oracle) about this. Please join the LifeAfterOracle project here at Java.net. We're off and running with some interesting email list exchanges, which we are pleased to announce do include people at Oracle .

// Robotics at JavaOne 2009

Swarm of Brian was presented as a Birds of a Feather (BOF) presentation at JavaOne 2009. Get the Swarm of Brian project at Java.Net.

// Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Wrapup

Here's a page with links to videos, blogs, photos, slideware and more from the MEDD conference in January 2009.

// Code Commits of Note

2009 May: Beaconing simulation in Greenfoot is working and available for download in the Swarm of Brian project. Brian has also written a helpful beaconing app note which includes links to the Java source code, and clearly explains how the Greenfoot beaconing simulation is being written.

2009 Feb: Swarm development, including a Greenfoot swarm simulator, is moving ahead in the Swarm of Brian project. This includes demo code shown at the the Jan 2009 MEDD conference.

2008 Mar 05: The TrackBotCode is greatly improved. The TrackBot Greenfoot simulator now includes three different maze generators (in the MazeWorld class).

TrackBot demo code in the TrackBotCode incubator project. This includes demo code shown at the the Jan 2008 MEDD conference. There is also a commit in the SunSPOT-trackbot project area - the code from the JavaOne HOL 7230.

Features

Life After Oracle
Be proactive about Java.net under Oracle management. What is your vision for Java.net in the future? What do you think is the unique value of Java.net? For more information, please navigate to to the project site for more details and start in the email archives. Then join in!

Swarm of Brian
Swarm algorithms for TrackBots with SunSPOT application brains, including a Greenfoot swarm simulator. This application-level development is taking place in parallel with the TrackBot runtime additions which provide swarm support. The Greenfoot simulator lets us all get started in a simpler world model, while the necessary TrackBot runtime code is being developed. This project was featured at JavaOne 2009 in the Swarm of Brian BOF.

TrackBot Sensor Evaluation
PC-based application which connects to TrackBot through a DCE serial adapter and enables testing and characterization of all eight IR sensors on the TrackBot platform. Includes a screen-based text/graphical display of sensor response in all three sensitivity settings. Command line parameters include which pair of the eight sensors to test at a time. Reports any errors and timeouts. Has been very useful in analyzing PC serial port performance.

TrackBot-Greenfoot
TrackBot robot simulator support in the Greenfoot IDE and 2-D simulator. Very cool for educational use. Please join and help us add capabilities!

leRCoS - LEGO Remote Control System
eRCoS is the result of a thesis project. It is working fine on RCX and I'd like to extend it for the NTX brick in order to take advance of Bluetooth communication system!

Robotics Application Framework
RSCL provides a framework to develop applications to simulate and control a mobile robot. It has been used successfully with vastly different medium sized (~150 lb) autonomous ground vehicles.

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