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topgear-thoughts

2014-07-20

At a distance

• programming robots with a graphical repl

Technical innovations

• repl programming model
• self-hosted web-based programming environment

Problems

• repl programming model
  • interruptable, re-enterable code
  • parallel code/concurrency
  • real time??
• self-hosted web-based programming environment
  • gamepad api --> python latency

Continue?

• the system latency really hurts
  • can use a piemos-equivalent that sends networked joystick commands to robot