So, x-mas 2011 at the soonest? If that's being generous, then what prediction would be a worst-case scenario?
Xmas 2010 you mean One year from now at the soonest. Worst case, yeah, somewhere between pigs flying and Hell freezing over If you want a 80% confidence time span, I'd say 4-5 years at the outside. It's hard to say since I work in spurts and the amount of time I can spend doing Darwinbots work can vary significantly. Looking over the past year and a half I've made significant progress, though.
You mean... Abandonware?!?! (*gasp!)
Nums, what's the probability that you'll move on to other things before it's finished?
Possible but not terribly likely. I've done a few other projects since I started with Darwinbots, but I keep coming back for more abuse. It's rewarding in a masochistic sort of way.
I just want to get an idea with nums to see if he can foresee any possibly insurmountable problems.
Nothing really insurmountable, but definitely some major things relating to physics still need to be ironed out.