[Sugar-devel] TurtleBlocks driving lego NXT 2.0 -

[Mike Lee]

Bert,

Scratch does support WeDo, quite well. But there is a limit of one motor.

The LEGO Education robotics producer has told me that I can mention
that a totally rewritten version of LEGO WeDo for the XO-1 and 1.5 is
in late beta.

I can tell you that it works very well!

Mike

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> On 04.01.2011, at 20:00, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'd like to also put in a plug for the LEGO's low-cost WeDo robotics
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>> Oh, wishes wishes :-)
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>> Both arduino and nxt are within reach because others have laid the
>> foundations. You can easily program them from Linux. Here, we're
>> talking about adding glue between TA and existing tools to program
>> those 'bots.
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>> AFAICS, for WeDo there is currently no way to program them from Linux.
>> That's kind of a stumbling block. Maybe it has a similar controller
>> brick or is close enough that you can work with the NXC/NXB people to
>> get it supported...
>>
>> cheers,
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> Doesn't Scratch support WeDo? There might be a clue. See this thread:
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> http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=434923
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> Also, in 2008/09 someone was working on porting the original LabVIEW-based software to the XO (they posted to olpc-devel and Sugar lists without mentioning what it was for). But I have not heard anything ever since (even though LEGO announced XO support in their original 2008 press release). In that thread above it is mentioned that Peru did a project using it.
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> - Bert -
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