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− | TurtleBots is [[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art | TurtleBlocks]] with some robot plugins: Butiá, Lego NxT, Lego WeDo, FollowMe | + | TurtleBots is [[Activities/Turtle_Art | TurtleBlocks]] with some robot [[Activities/TurtleArt/Plugins | plugins]]: Butiá, Lego NxT, Lego WeDo, FollowMe |
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| + | [http://activities.sugarlabs.org//en-US/sugar/addon/4434 Download TurtleBots for Sugar] |
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| + | [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/files/package/ Download TurtleBots for other platforms] |
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| + | Support for this activity is provided by the developer at butia@fing.edu.uy |
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| ==Butiá== | | ==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. | + | 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. |
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| + | [[File:Butia.jpg]] [[File:Butia18.jpg|235px]] |
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| + | The Butia team is located in Uruguay, detailed documentation exists in the Spanish language: |
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| [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)] |
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| + | [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Main_page_(English) Project Butia Homepage (in English)] |
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| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/butiarobot/sets/ Flickr Photostream] | | [http://www.flickr.com/photos/butiarobot/sets/ Flickr Photostream] |
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| + | [http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/P%C3%A1gina_principal Wiki (in Spanish)] |
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| + | 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. |
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| + | [[File:Arduinomega.jpeg|300px]] [[File:Butiashield.jpg|250px]] [[File:Usb4butia.jpg|170px]] [[File:Usb4butia187.jpg|250px]] |
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| + | ''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'' |
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| + | 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. |
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| + | 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. |
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| + | [[File:butia_palette.png|1050px]] |
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| ==Lego NxT== | | ==Lego NxT== |
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| ==FollowMe== | | ==FollowMe== |
| See [[Activities/Turtle_Art#FollowMe]] | | See [[Activities/Turtle_Art#FollowMe]] |
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