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In article <Bs155M.IAw@DMI.USherb.CA>, protocom@DMI.USherb.CA (protocom-Laurent turcotte) writes:
|> From: protocom@DMI.USherb.CA (protocom-Laurent turcotte)
|> Subject: Robot Turtle...(Terapin Turtle)...need info...
|> Date: 27 Jul 92 04:15:21 GMT
|> 
|> 
|> 	Does anybody no about any kind of turtle robot.
|> 
|> 	This robot is supposed to hold a pen and plot it's movements as it is
|> controlled by a PC (Apple, Mac or etc...) running LOGO.
|> 
|> 	So what you see on the screen (i.e. turtle graphics) is what you get, as
|> traced out by the robot turtle.
|> 
|> 	The information link can be infrared, wireless or even dangling wires...
|> 
|> 	I need to teach youngsters logo, geometry and robotics etc...
|> 
|> P.S. I heard about the Terapin turtle a LONG time ago now I'm interested in
|> locating ANY kind of turtle device....

Folks who have no interest in Logo history should ignore my posts:

The first Logo Turtle was, indeed a wireless robot; it's name
was Irving (from an old joke about a grasshopper).  I built it in
about 1969 - 70?? at BBN in Cambridge.  It was 12" in diameter,
had touch sensors and a bell(beeper).  Later versions had other
ecoutrements.  Irving went incrementally forward, and back, and could
rotate (pivot about it's center) in 15 degree increments.

Irving is in a closet somewhere these days, but I have a few pictures
(and left over parts somewhere)

Irving had an interface driven by a teletype (Reg TM)


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