For years, my colleagues and I have been working on lightweight runtimes for parallel languages. To put our work in context, we’ve often targeted small robotics platforms like the LEGO Mindstorms for demonstrating the power of a parallel-safe language for real-time systems. This summer, we realized that the Arduino was a marvelous, open-source platform with [...]
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programming less visually
Operation: Stick Figure Army is a project that will provide tools for converting 2D imagery (as typically found in many introductory computing texts) into 2.5D representations: physical tiles with raised and textured surfaces that represent one or more diagrams from a text. This lets us explore, as a group, image processing, 3D printing, and the [...]