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Technical Report for JetStorm

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Jetstorm is the library to make Pharo communicate with the Lego Mindstorm Ev3. We provide the technical report. It explains the protocol and the architecture of the library.

If you want to cite it, here is the lines to copy and paste in bibtex:

@techreport{Lava14a,
   Author = {Jannik Laval},
   Institution = {URIA -- Ecole des Mines de Douai},
   Title = {JetStorm - A communication protocol between Pharo and Lego Mindstorms},
   Url = {www.jannik-laval.eu/assets/files/papers/Lava14a-JetStorm.pdf},
   Year = {2014}
}

With the evolution of JetStorm, the Technical Report will be improved.

MetaRepo for Phratch

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I begin to write a strong interesting new functionality in Phratch: the Meta Repository.

The idea comes from Pharo: The Meta Repository is an area where you can put the installation process (in our words, a Metacello Configuration) of an extension of Phratch.

You can build a Metacello configuration based on the chapter already written about Metacello, available here: http://pharobooks.gforge.inria.fr/PharoByExampleTwo-Eng/latest/Metacello.pdf.
For now, you just need to have a class that has the pattern name ConfigurationOgYourAddOnName, where YourAddOnName should be changed by the name you want.

Then, just put the new configuration package on the PhratchMetaRepo, using Metacello, and putting it on the server: http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JLaval/PhratchMetaRepo/main
using the following configuration of the Monticello configuration:

MCHttpRepository
    location: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JLaval/PhratchMetaRepo/main'
    user: ''
    password: ''

Finally, on the user side of Phratch, you can see a new menu “AddOns”, where you can install all new add-ons. For now, there is one project: JetStorm for Phratch, that allows one to connect the robots Lego Mindstorms to Phratch.

I hope a lot of new projects will appear in following months.

Jannik

Announce of JetStorm

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Do you know Lego MindStorms ? The last one is the Ev3 serie (http://www.lego.com/fr-fr/mindstorms/). One particularity of this version compared to the previous ones is the possibility to plug a Wifi key and connect via TCP.

So, if you have this material (one Mindstorms Ev3, one compatible Wifi key), you can control your robot with Pharo !

Just load these lines:

Gofer it
     url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JLaval/JetStorm/main'      username: ''
     password: '';
     package: 'ConfigurationOfJetStorm';
     load.
(Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfJetStorm) loadBleedingEdge.

I know also that for Christmas, it is not possible to learn a new API, we all have a lot of other things to do ! So, you can play with it into Phratch.

For that, just load Phratch and the package EV3Phratch as follow.

Gofer it
       url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JLaval/Phratch/main'        username: ''
       password: '';
       package: 'ConfigurationOfPhratch';
       load.
(Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPhratch) loadBleedingEdge.
Gofer it
       url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JLaval/JetStorm/main'        username: ''
       password: '';
       package: 'EV3Phratch';
       load.

Have fun !