[Sugar-devel] TurtleBlocks driving lego NXT 2.0 -

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I had a similar conversation with the Arduino team in .uy last month. We
>
> Interesting!
>
> > I would recommend as a place to start simply adding a set of blocks to
> > control the motors and access the sensor data. And leave the programming
> > logic to the Sugar Activity.
>
> Right - but I will need to write an exporter that spits out NXC, and
> perhaps some glue commands that try to export it to the USB-connected
> "Brick"...
>

You'll need to write that regardless. You can start by writing some python
and import it into a block. These blocks can take up to 3 arguments. That
way you'd not need to hack any TA code at all to start.

>
> > Happy to help any way I can. (BTW, v106, not yet released, but in git,
> has
> > support for the XO camera as an additional sensor... a request from a
> > teacher in .uy.)
>
> Thanks! Yes, I spotted that in the git repo -
>
> Happy 2011!
>
>
>
> m
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Walter Bender
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