Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!brianre From: brianre@sco.COM (Brian T. Reid) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Robot for a Nine Year Old Summary: Logo with a Turtle a possible suggestion Message-ID: <1990Dec19.221157.1165@sco.COM> Date: 19 Dec 90 22:11:57 GMT References: <90352.102403ANDQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Sender: news@sco.COM (News administration) Organization: SCO Canada, Inc. (formerly HCR Corporation) Lines: 39 In article <90352.102403ANDQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> ANDQC@CUNYVM (Andrew A. Beveridge) writes: >My daughter a pretty smart 9 year old attended a workshop yesterday, where >a number of Robots were used by kids.. > >She was completely captivated by the HERO. > >What other suggestions do you have about teaching a kid about Robots, without >breaking the Bank. In its early incarnations Logo ( a graphics oriented computer language meant for kids) was intended to drive a robot-like device with a pen in it that ran around on the floor. Much of Logo's command set still reflects this concept. I don't know if there was ever a commercially produced implementation that included a turtle but I have read (old) books that offer plans/kits from organizations involved with Logo. I've always thought that this was an interesting idea and possibly fun to play with ( for the kids, honest :-) so you have prompted my asking: Does anyone know of a Logo implementation that is available that includes support for a physical turtle on some reasonable home machine. ( I guess that probably means MS-DOS, :-) I would be interested in anything, for whatever platform, including plans, kits, technical documentation. Everything I've seen had a non-technical slant, ie. from an educator's point of view, or was for _very_ old platforms. If there is interest I can summarize e-mail responses. ( Is this the best group for this? I think it is, but... ) Andrew, if you're interested I can provide references from some of those books -- Logo itself is interesting for kids and I know there are implementations of that around.. -- Brian T. Reid | Not necessarily, Technical Staff | I could be arguing in my spare time! -MP SCO Canada, Inc \------------------------------------------------ InterNet: brianre@sco.COM Usenet: {uunet,utcsri,utzoo,sco}!scocan!brianre