Fischertechnik robotics for acorn?
Reiner Schulz
Hi!
I'm looking for interface-software for Fischertechnik Computing kits.
Does YOU know the firm which make this software for Fischertechnik
kits?
I also phoned to Fischertechnik Germany and they said a firm called
Acornomatics Ltd.
epic house
barnell road
atterclisse#
cheffield
S95 AA
(not sure about the address)
made the software.
Can you help me?
Bye Reiner
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Peter Brunning
I have made a couple more corrections:
In article <47ea978...@cartmell.demon.co.uk>, John Cartmell
<jo...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <95d8fea47%rsc...@Spirit.gag.de>,
> Reiner Schulz <rsc...@Spirit.gag.de> wrote:
> > I'm looking for interface-software for Fischertechnik Computing kits.
> > Does YOU know the firm which make this software for Fischertechnik
> > kits?
> > I also phoned to Fischertechnik Germany and they said a firm called
> > Acornomatics Ltd.
Economatics Ltd
> > epic house
> > barnell road
Darnall Road
> > atterclisse#
Attercliffe
> > cheffield
> Sheffield
> > S95 AA
S9 5AA
tel: 0114 281 3344
fax: 0114 243 9306
(above gained from a BETT '96 guide)
(BETT is education show in January)
Peter Young
> I also phoned to Fischertechnik Germany and they said a firm called
> Acornomatics Ltd.
> epic house
> barnell road
> atterclisse#
> cheffield
> S95 AA
Try this....
Economatics
Epic House
Darnall Road
Attercliffe
Sheffield
S9 5AA
UK
Telephone: 0114 256 1122
Fax: 0114 243 9306
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Mark Gillman
> Does YOU know the firm which make this software for Fischertechnik
> kits?
>
> I also phoned to Fischertechnik Germany and they said a firm called
>
> Acornomatics Ltd.
> epic house
> barnell road
> atterclisse#
> cheffield
> S95 AA
Much as it grieves me :-) the company you are looking for is
Economatics (Education) Ltd
Epic House
Darnall Road
Attercliffe
Sheffield
S9 5AA
http://www.economatics.co.uk/ (and follow the links to the
education division).
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Mark Gillman
Keith Goodier
In article <19971118....@gink.ccl4.org>, hi...@ccl4.org (gARetH baBB)
wrote:
> In article <na.54a67247e...@argonet.co.uk>,
> ja...@argonet.co.uk (Keith Goodier) wrote:
>
> > Ask for details of the "Smart Box" control and monitoring package
> > and "Smart Move" software.
>
> Woo woo ! More royalties ! :-)
Greetings and salutations your baBBship ;-)
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Wayne Bagguley
In message <64qfuq$9...@yama.mcc.ac.uk>
mbh...@meehpa01.ee.man.ac.uk (Mark Stephens) wrote:
> As far as I know they only do the Fischer Technik bits and pieces.
> I have bought from them some "Robot Kits" based upon a list of
> parts put together by Ulrich Nehmzow at the CS dept. here at Manchester.
Coo! I remember him. I did robotics as a 3rd year option, and I believe
that our robotics group (of three people) were the best in the labs!
I remember that as the last exercise we were supposed to program a robot
to the the local light intensity to find its way back home. Our team
were the only ones who could do it, and 99% of the program was coded by
myself!
> http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/robotics/nehmzow.html
> I believe Ulrich's people use the MIT Handy Boards or similar with
> them whilst my students use Texas Instruments TMS370 microcontrollers.
I can't comment on this, but I do know that 42 (the really cool robot)
does not use these boards. Heck, you can even telnet to it!!
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Mark Stephens
In article <ant172315b49+gH=@wymondham.demon.co.uk>,
Chris Walker <ch...@wymondham.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Reiner, If you are interested in robots, take a look at the Department
> of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Manchester University who
> have a Mobile Robotics Research group
> http://www.salford.ac.uk/eee/mrob.html
A bit of a mix up here. Research into autonomous robots is being done
in the Electrical Division of the Manchester School of Engineering
at Manchester University (we were the department that built the
world first electronically stored program computer). This research
group doesn't have a web page (they are working on it). The URL
quoted is for the research group at the University of Salford who
are (1) in Salford a town close to but not in Manchester and (2)
a separate university from the University of Manchester. The
Computer Science department at Manchester (a spin off from us)
also do robotics research. Before anyone asks none of these places
are much to do with UMIST (who also have a Dept. of E&EE).
Meanwhile see also
http://piglet.cs.umass.edu:4321/robotics.html
http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~gurses/robotics/robot/small_in.html
Mark.
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The Manchester School of Engineering,
The University of Manchester,
Manchester UK M13 9PL. Tel. +44 (0)161 275 4557
M.B.St...@manchester.ac.uk
See also http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhesms/
Chris Walker
In article <65232f$ru0$3...@yama.mcc.ac.uk>, Mark Stephens
<URL:mailto:mbh...@meehpa01.ee.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> In article <ant172315b49+gH=@wymondham.demon.co.uk>,
> Chris Walker <ch...@wymondham.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Reiner, If you are interested in robots, take a look at the Department
>
> A bit of a mix up here. Research into autonomous robots is being done
My apologies if I caused a mix-up. I thought I *carefully* quoted one of
your previous emails which contained all the info.
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Tim Bannister
In article <19971118....@gink.ccl4.org>, hi...@ccl4.org (gARetH baBB)
writes:
> In article <na.54a67247e...@argonet.co.uk>,
> ja...@argonet.co.uk (Keith Goodier) wrote:
>
> > Ask for details of the "Smart Box" control and monitoring package
> > and "Smart Move" software.
>
> Woo woo ! More royalties ! :-)
Please don't. Save yourself. I'd rather write assembly, cobol, algol-60
(actually, COBOL and smart move are pretty much matched)
I spent hours at school writing Smart Move software
and it has SO many pointless features, and omits so many useful ones
(debugging is a pain also)
Tim Bannister - bann...@cs.man.ac.uk
"Would you mind if I wrote this in BBC Basic instead" - me to CDT teacher
(Ray Bradley, author of a book on robotics with the BBC Model B
(and the i**** who got in Smart Boxes)
"I'm afraid I would, yes"
(aforementioned diehard Acorn fan)
[allegedly]