Carnegie Mellon FIRE Project: Virtual Worlds

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Just found this on Carnegie Mellon’s site: FIRE Project: Vitual Worlds. I’m still digesting the information, but it seems that it will be a 3D programming tool, useable for VEX and LEGO NXT. You will be able to program a virtual robot to interact with a vitual enviroment with RobotC. They have a couple of demo videos, but most feature the NXT…

They say that the goal is to “over the next three years enable students to program their robots in the virtual world using the same programming language that they use when they program their robots in the real world (NXTG, LabVIEW, ROBOTC)” (NXTG and Labview are for the LEGO NXT, fyi)

Scheduled release is March 2011! :slight_smile: (Unfortunatly too late for this year’s competition, but maybe next year…)

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Oh wow, this should be awesome, I can’t wait for the release to try it out! Should be very helpful for teams as well as hobbyists, and should be really fun to use. :smiley:

~Jordan

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This is really amazing. Thanks for letting us know. This should allow programmers and buliders to work in parallell like never before.

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UPDATE:
CMU is releasing a “technical demo” of the virtual world software on 2/11. These two links provide more info:
[LIST]
*] * CMU Blog Post
*] * Planet H99 Site
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VERY cool!!! I am super excited now. :slight_smile:

~Jordan

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Just under 3 and a half hours left! Counting down… http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/h99/download.php

~Jordan

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I remember seeing this. I would love to program a virtual robot at home.

I’ll be counting down as well-

Can’t wait.

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3 mins to go~ i cant wait… to bad the computers at my schools wont be able to handle this >…>

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Download is and has been available, haven’t received the email yet though…

~Jordan

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I have to say that I am very envious… I still haven’t received my email… anyone else having this problem?

~Jordan

EDIT: Never mind then, just had to enter my information again, it must have not been working earlier.

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WOW, i cant wait to get this!
i hope future updates will give you the ability to CREATE your own vex robot out of pre made parts! :slight_smile:
too bad there isn’t easyC, but hey, the whole point is to learn a new programming language

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I played this for a little while, and it’s a really nice project. I hope that there is support for user created models in the near future. It would change the programming process and help the programmers be less dependent on the builders.

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Just downloaded this and I think it is great. The hardest part about teaching programming is having time with the robot. The fact that it is autonomous only right now should help improve this area of the competition. This has a lot of potential. I am swamped with work, so I hope to get more time exploring this on the weekend.

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Its pretty good but far from perfect. I will be glad to see it support user designs and normal VEX robotc programming. It looks quite good though, I’ll keep watching the updates.

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