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Re: WALTR (Wireless, Apple II, Logo, Turtle, Robot) - S2 robot with Logo, Bluetooth and a pen lifter.

On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:55:44 PM UTC-5, Lukazi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> WALTR is a Parallax Scribbler 2 (S2) robot that takes in direct action
> or interpreted Logo movement commands via a serial connection and
> executes them. Although I designed WALTR to be run from an Apple II
> computer any computer with a serial port and a Logo software package
> that supports serial communications can be used. WALTR can still be
> used as a Logo robot even without its pen lifter and Bluetooth
> enhancements.
> 
> Project details :-
> http://lukazi.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/waltr-update.html
> and
> http://lukazi.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/waltr-introduction.html
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> 
> Alex.

That's pretty exciting stuff!  Have you considered integrating this with Scratch?  The BYOB (build your own blocks) module might be a good place to start.

Thanks for an awesome writeup!  Looks really cool.  I have kids excited about the prospect of building their own robotics after watching "Prototype This."

-B