Sonar Arrives for the Robot

Following the release of Dyalog APL for the Raspberry Pi came a hectic week with no time to play… But now the next sensor has arrived, so it is time to power the robot back up. In the video below, we practice turning it through 180 degrees using APL. [embedplusvideo height=”356″ width=”584″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/W6IIcNK0g0U?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=W6IIcNK0g0U&width=584&height=356&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep8492″ […]
APL at work in Africa

My dad is originally from the Cape, and I grew up in Botswana, so hopefully I can be forgiven for feeling that it is very cool to find Dyalog APL at the core of a project which aims to increase financial literacy and support the financial stability of small and medium-sized enterprises in South Africa, […]
Elementary Cellular Light-Emitting Automaton

In response to an earlier post on driving an 8-bar LED using the Raspberry Pi, Roger Hui commented that 8 lights should be sufficient to display the output of a 1-d Game of Life. The code snippets displayed in this post are based on some working code that Roger was also kind enough to forward to me. The […]
Dyalog APL v14.0 Tech Preview

And now, as they say, for something completely different. Our robot is running Dyalog APL version 13.2 for the Raspberry Pi, which was released on our major platforms (Windows, Linux, AIX) in January 2013. The next release of Dyalog APL will be version 14.0, which currently has a tentative delivery date of “sometime in the 1st […]
Dyalog APL now available for the Raspberry Pi!

Although the news had not yet appeared on the Dyalog webpage when this was written, the CTO blog has access to exclusive sources and is therefore able to present this scoop: The big day has finally come – Dyalog APL version 13.2 is now available to anyone with a Raspberry Pi, and can be downloaded […]