Fw: Thoughts

Well...
I can give you a little help in the 4th question... I've been in a summer
course on Mindstorms (which turned out to be of little interest, as we only
programmed using the RIS programming language...) and, on the very last day,
 we started using a little Java... From what I've heard from people who 
spend
 their lives programming robots, the 2 "most important" languages for
 programming Mindstorms are Java and NQC... And between those two, Java has
 more capabilities than NQC. That's why a lot of people I met stopped using
 NQC and started using Java... I have never learned how to program in Java,
 so I don't use it... But I've been using C for some time and I'm starting 
to
 use NQC... Maybe I'll change to Java, in the future ;-)
 Best regards,
 João Pedro

 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Andrew G. Meyer" <[email protected]>
 To: <[email protected]>
 Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 8:38 PM
 Subject: Thoughts


> Some things that I've been pondering:
> 1. Has anyone created Lego-compatible solenoids?
> 2. Would a Lego hovercraft be feasible?
> 3. Where can you get a complete Cybermaster set that is in North America?
> 4. Is Java a useable language for Mindstorms, and what firmware would you 
> need
> to use it?
> I've been out of school now for about 30 days, and have had nothing to do 
> but
> think and play with Legos. Well, OK, there were other things, but those 
> don't
> apply here.
>
> Andrew Meyer
>