[ale] robot

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> The stamp is limited to 36 sets of instructions for the BS2. The =
> question is, could you program part of the robot in pbasic and the other =
> in Java or c.

You're not in Kansas anymore Toto. If you're going to use a Stamp and only
a stamp, you're confined to pbasic. Period. End of the discussion.

Java is generally considered to be too heavyweight to run directly on
microcontrollers. For the most part the standard languages are in the C,
Basic, and assembly veins, with a couple of designer languages, like JAL and
my own NPCI (still in prebeta) sprinkled in.

So you'll either have to choose a language and platform, or partition your
problem into segments and assign different computers to those segments. That's
the fun part of robotics, PWM motor control and high level planning are both
activities you need to do, but they are often galaxies apart in terms of the
computational resources and complexity required.

BAJ

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