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[[Activities/TurtleArt/Arduino|Turtle Art with Arduino]] support is an extension of Turtle Art that supports data capture from the Arduino board. This branch is maintained by Sayamindu Dasgupta and Rafael Ortiz.
[[Activities/TurtleArt/Arduino|Turtle Art with Arduino]] support is an extension of Turtle Art that supports data capture from the Arduino board. This branch is maintained by Sayamindu Dasgupta and Rafael Ortiz.


==Learning with Turtle Art==
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Play with Turtle Art to draw colorful art patterns using a turtle that accepts instructions for movement.
 
With visual programming blocks, you can snap together programs by compiling (combining) them in ways to create anything you can imagine.
 
<gallery>
File:TA-sample1.png
File:TA-sample2.png
File:TA-sample3.png
File:TA-sample4.png
File:TA-sample5.png
File:TA-sample6.png
</gallery>
 
===maths===
 
<gallery>
File:TAclock1.png|A clock activity
File:TAclock2.png
File:TAclock3.png
File:TAclock4.png
File:TAgeometry.png|Calculating the hypotenuse and approximating the angle of a right triangle
File:TAgeometry1.png|Stepping through the program is a nice way to visualize the process of approximation
File:TAgeometry2.png|The final result of the approximation.
File:Sine.png|And on-the-fly function definitions
</gallery>
 
Tony Forster describes his "adventures" with on-the-fly definitions to create an [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fTmGyLerUL4/SY0URR-P7TI/AAAAAAAAAN4/XySQUPHmiME/s1600-h/clockface.jpg analog clock] in [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-insert-function-block-in.html his blog.]
 
Try any of the [http://docs.python.org/library/time.html time] or [http://docs.python.org/library/math.html math] library functions, e.g.,
 
localtime().tm_min
 
sin(x) + sin(pi/2)
 
===presentations===
 
<gallery>
File:Portfolio14.png
File:Portfolio13.png
</gallery>
 
===games===
 
Turtle Art can be used to write games, such as a simple falling block game:
<gallery>
File:WeGotGame.png
File:Hot-cold.png
File:Yes-no.png
File:State-game.png
File:Boston-game.png
File:Continent-game.png
File:Gardner-school.png
File:Shapes-game.png
</gallery>
 
===sensors===
 
Turtle Art supports sensor input:
 
<gallery>
File:Bike odometer.png|Using a Hall-effect sensor, you can build a bike odometer in Turtle Art
</gallery>
More ideas for sensors [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors]]
[[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Uso_de_TortugaArte_Sensores]]
 
===student work===
Students from Caacupé have been sending me examples of their work:
 
<gallery>
File:Mi bici.png|Eduado Fabian Ayala Vargas
File:TmpNW2JGh.png|Johana Soeli Aquino
File:Circulo colores.png|Ivan Silva
File:Tmp4FAsHi.png|Rodrigo Nicolas Valdéz Bobadilla
File:Captura pantalla de Actividad TortugArte.png|Juan Pablo Espinola Carballo
File:Flora.png|Miguela
</gallery>


==Getting Started==
==Getting Started==