Sun sponsored the first JavaTM Technology Lego MindStorm Challenge award in Menlo Park, CA earlier this year. Teams competed from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and Stanford University.

UC Santa Cruz presented "SlugBot," a moving robot that plays one-finger, downloadable melodies on a small keyboard. Stanford's "MazeBot" used the Lego hosted leJOS framework to execute Java technology bytecode to solve a JavaServer PagesTM technology-generated maze. UC Berkeley presented "PaperBot," which won, a robot that selects and sorts paper by color.

The theme of the challenge was doing more with less. Each team was restricted to using one and only one Lego Mindstorm Kit (provided by Sun), and a narrow window of development opportunity. All the teams attended a luncheon with James Gosling. The conversation was recorded and is available in MP3 format. Photos are also available online.

http://www.sun.com/developers/evangcentral/challenge [...read more...]

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