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TurtleBlocks with some | TurtleBots is [[Activities/Turtle_Art | TurtleBlocks]] with some robot [[Activities/TurtleArt/Plugins | plugins]]: Butiá, Lego NxT, Lego WeDo, FollowMe | ||
Project | [http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/addon/4434 Download TurtleBots for Sugar] | ||
[http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/files/package/ Download TurtleBots for other platforms] | |||
Support for this activity is provided by the developer at butia@fing.edu.uy | |||
==Butiá== | |||
Project Butiá aims to create a simple and inexpensive platform to enable students from public high schools, in coordination with teachers and inspectors of Secondary Education, to learn the programming of robots' behavior. | |||
[[File:Butia.jpg]] [[File:Butia18.jpg|235px]] | |||
The Butia team is located in Uruguay, detailed documentation exists in the Spanish language: | |||
[http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/ Project Butia Homepage (in Spanish)] | [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/ Project Butia Homepage (in Spanish)] | ||
[http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Main_page_(English) Project Butia Homepage (in English)] | |||
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/butiarobot/sets/ Flickr Photostream] | |||
[http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/P%C3%A1gina_principal Wiki (in Spanish)] | |||
The XO laptop sits on a baseplate which also has [http://www.robotis.com/xe/dynamixel_en 2 motors], [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Kit_de_sensores sensors] and a [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Pack_de_bater%C3%ADas battery pack]. | |||
The motors and sensors interface to the XO through a small PCB, either an [http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardMega Arduino Mega] and [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Construccion_shield_v1.0 shield] or a [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Usb4butia Usb4butia PCB] (which uses a PIC microcontroller). The connection between the XO laptop and the small PCB is by USB cable. The cable must stay connected while the program is running. | |||
[[File:Arduinomega.jpeg|300px]] [[File:Butiashield.jpg|250px]] [[File:Usb4butia.jpg|170px]] [[File:Usb4butia187.jpg|250px]] | |||
''Shown L-R, the Arduino Mega, the shield PCB which plugs into the Arduino Mega, the Usb4Butia which replaces both boards in later versions of the Butia'' | |||
To install the software which runs on Usb4Butia, there is an activity [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4621 ButiaFirmware] Activity which runs on a XO. | |||
The robot's controlling program runs on the XO laptop, typically TurtleBots, the pallette of blocks is shown below. Control by programs in [[Activities/Butialo | Lua]] , [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Butialo] , [http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/addon/4457] or [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Python Python] is also possible. | |||
[[File:butia_palette.png|1050px]] | |||
==Lego NxT== | |||
See [[Activities/Turtle_Art#LEGO_NxT]] | |||
==Lego WeDo== | |||
See [[Activities/Turtle_Art#WeDo]] | |||
==FollowMe== | |||
See [[Activities/Turtle_Art#FollowMe]] | |||
[[Category:Activities]] | |||