On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
using LOGO on a //e is a great idea - even if it was done tongue in cheek.
It's not tongue-in-cheek. LOGO on the Apple II was a big deal for young children in the mid-1980s. I wasn't one of them: I was a few years too old by that time, so we learned BASIC instead (middle school, just after it stopped being "junior high"). But I did learn some LOGO turtle graphics on a Commodore in elementary school.
I thought I'd make something more interesting than the standard Lego turtle. But now there is little time before Maker Faire so the turtle is feeling inevitable.
ISTR having some LOGO on //e's in 4th grade. Somewhere I have a floppy with my saved programs. They still did some LOGO into 6th grade. Aside from power/weight ratio of a quad vs. the bulk of an Apple // or ][, I could envision using the LOGO turtle interfaces through a microcontroller that then sent translation commands to the drone's built-in controller, maybe just by hacking the remote. The // certainly doesn't have the compute or interrupts to fly it directly, but it can take the controls. Probably not enough time to make that go before Maker Faire. :) Maybe I missed this, but maybe build the Lego LOGO robot large enough to carry around the //? -- Jameel Akari