The already important issue of interoperability is raised to another level in this post about the upcoming Lego virtual world
Having a generational migration path through the various platforms, some for play some for work, raises all the questions about how we represent ourselves in each and how we are able to move between them.
FUNK encoding was designed to accomodate a very broad range of devices/environments particularly those with limited memory and little or no support for commonly used web protocols. I don’t have a Mindstorms robot, but a quick look at the Advanced Programming Guide would seems to indicate that it fits the above description. There may not be XML and JSON parsers for Lego Mindstorms real soon and even when there are, just like Second Life’s LSL, these robots will be small memory footprint environments for some time to come. I’d love to hear from anyone with hands-on Legos programming experiences about this - I’m sure we can get Legos robots to RAP!
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