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eyeWyre Simulation Studio

manxstampmanxstamp Posts: 57
edited 2011-03-17 04:51 in Robotics
A few years ago a useful robotics simulation program, Simulation Studio, was available from eyeWyre Corporation, Shelby Township, MI, USA.

A demo of this software was downloadable; it had a copyright of 2003. It was an excellent simulation of the BOE-Bot. To obtain the fully functional version a CD-ROM·could be purchased. However, the manufacturer, eyeWyre Corporation, has been uncontactable for the past few years.

I and others, who have contacted me since my original post on this subject, are keen to contact eyeWyre's members to see if this extremely versatile piece of software can be obtained in a fully functional version.

Does anyone have any information about the fate of eyeWyre and this software? If it is no longer supported, is it out of copyright and could be made 'public domain'?

John

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Manxstamp,
Isle of Man, British Isles

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  • Bruce BatesBruce Bates Posts: 3,045
    edited 2008-03-18 22:28
    John -

    Have you or any of the others tried sending a FAX to: +15867819145 to see if you get any response?

    Regards,

    Bruce Bates

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2008-03-18 22:42
    When I go to their website it says, "We'll be back soon!" However I don't know how long that has been that way. Sorry.

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2008-03-19 00:35
    They were there as of 13 August 2007: web.archive.org/web/20070813144901/http://www.eyewyre.com/. That's the latest link on the Wayback Machine.

    -Phil
  • eyeWyreeyeWyre Posts: 1
    edited 2008-10-21 15:26
    I am the owner of eyeWyre Corporation, and the primary developer of Simulation Studio, the robotics and micro-controller simulation software.

    Simulation Studio was released in 2003 and was actively developed until late 2005. While interest in the product was steady and sales were ok, neither were great enough at the time to warrant further development or investment. As such, we stopped selling the product and began licensing 'pieces' of the simulator.

    This is obviously subjective, but we always felt we were ahead of our time. Even to this day, I have not seen a simulation product that equalled Studio's capabilities. This doesn't mean that Studio was not without issue. It lacked certain features necessary to really gain traction. Specifically, end user modeling of robots and interact-able elements and worlds.

    While we retain ownership of the rights to the product, we have no plans to rerelease the product for sale. I will consider making the full system available for free to those that express an interest. Understand that should I do that, a) I do it without providing any support and b) am not even sure if and how well it will run on current versions of Windows and hardware.

    If after you understand a) and b), you are still interested in obtaining the software, drop me an email at mattc@eyewyre.com

    Regards,
    Matt
  • John KauffmanJohn Kauffman Posts: 653
    edited 2011-03-16 07:06
    Has anyone taken Matt up on his generous offer? Tried it on Win Vista or 7?
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2011-03-17 04:51
    John Kauffman wrote: »
    Has anyone taken Matt up on his generous offer? Tried it on Win Vista or 7?
    I can try it on XP and see how it works.
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