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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, <sigh> :-)  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..

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