Controlling Machines with Smalltalk on Raspberry PI

  • First Name: Georg
  • Last Name: Heeg
  • First Name: Karsten
  • Last Name: Kusche
  • Type: Talk

Abstract: In 2015 Georg Heeg eK presented an exhibition sound system at ESUG. Meanwhile they applied the same technology onto machine control. The first example is a service lift which was built in 1911 powered by a crank. The crank was to be replaced by an electric cable winch. The control was implemented in Smalltalk on a Raspberry pi. The main advantage of Smalltalk as control language is abstraction over standard PLC technology.

Bio: Georg Heeg uses Smalltalk since 1983. Four years later he founded Georg Heeg eK, a Smalltalk software house. He has not yet stopped using Smalltalk.

Bio: Karsten uses Smalltalk and VisualWorks since 12 years, working at Georg Heeg eK. He is one of the developers of seaBreeze, created the tools to find the Bach Haus in Köthen and also worked on Dakar Testing during his diploma thesis. In his spare time, he's an Objective-C developer writing useful little tools for Mac OS X. Notifications