[IAEP] Turtle Blocks question

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
<gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the help last night on the Arduino plugin.
> I know what I need to do.
>
> And now, another question. I have been working with the plugin for We Do
> robots. The plugin is installed and the palette is where it is supposed to
> be. But, the We Do does not respond to the program.
>
> When I look at the Turtle Arts plugin page
> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art/Plugins), I am directed
> to this link:
> https://github.com/itdaniher/WeDoMore/tree/master/udev
>
> to download directions for setting up permissions. However, there are two
> files there and I am not sure what to do with them.

99-lego-WeDo.rules are the rules and install_driver.sh is the script
to run to install them.

-walter

>
> I would appreciate any help you can provide.
>
> Thanks.
> Gerald
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
>> <gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Walter,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the amazingly quick response.
>> > I see TurtleBot. I would like to learn how to create my own spin, so
>> > please
>> > do walk me through it.
>>
>> The easiest thing to do is to:
>> (1) clone the TA project*
>> (2) load the plugins you are interested in
>> (3) run setup.py dist_xo to generate a new .xo bundle
>>
>> * git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/turtleart/mainline.git
>>
>> It may be useful to change the version number, for example, 160.1
>> instead of 160 in activity/activity.info
>>
>> > I will work more with the Launchpad. So far, it seems very much like the
>> > Arduino. Once I know more, I will start to talk to you about
>> > requirements
>> > for the plugin.
>>
>> OK. No hurry as I have my hands full at the moment.
>>
>> > Thanks.
>> > Gerald
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
>> >> <gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hello.
>> >> >
>> >> > I have been playing with the Turtle Blocks plugins for Follow Me, We
>> >> > Do Robots, Lego Mindstorms, and Arduino. They installed perfectly in
>> >> > Turtle Blocks (as expected).
>> >> >
>> >> > I have two questions:
>> >> > 1. I will need to install Turtle Blocks and these plugins on 25-50
>> >> > XO-1s. Do I have to do the plugins one by one on each machine?
>> >>
>> >> TurtleBot comes with all of the above plugins pre-installed.
>> >> It is also possible to create a special spin of Turtle Art with just
>> >> the plugins you want (several deployments do this and I could walk you
>> >> through the process)
>> >>
>> >> > 2. How do I go about requesting plug in(s) for the TI Launchpad?
>> >>
>> >> I need to know more about how to talk to the TI Launchpad and what
>> >> sorts of interactions between it and TA you are looking for.
>> >>
>> >> -walter
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks.
>> >> > Gerald
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>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Walter Bender
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>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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>
>



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