[cbolin]

Great feedback!

During competitions over the past two years I have met a lot of teams that have very, very small budgets. These teams might not have the resources to buy the various programmable kits above. By all means they are wonderful to use and good for teaching programming.

For the hundreds of teams and potentially thousands of students and mentors with shoestring budgets, I am interested in a free teaching tool that translates the autonomous code into virtual robot actions.

I like the idea of the student constructing his or her virtual robot: i.e. adding various sensors. The fields could be constructed with obstacles, boundaries and lines to track.

I'll let you know if I can't write this program. The hardest thing is to write a routine that translates legal "C" source code into an assembly type language that can be processed every 26 mSec. I have made significant progress in this. If this works then the restof the programming problem shouldn't be a problem. I can work with OpenGL in VB6 pretty good...maybe we can make a 3D bot. ;-)

Thanks and regards,
ChuckB