{"id":1205,"date":"2017-10-09T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T11:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2017-10-09T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T11:09:30","slug":"lego-interface-a-the-python-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/2017\/lego-interface-a-the-python-turtle","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Interface A &#8211; the Python Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This post is part 4 of 4 of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/series\/lego-interface-a\" class=\"series-317\" title=\"LEGO Interface A\">LEGO Interface A<\/a><\/div><p>In 1987 LEGO released several Activity Cards with examples to be used with the Interface A. One particular Activity Card, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bricklink.com\/v2\/catalog\/catalogitem.page?B=9700b8&amp;name=Set%209700%20Activity%20Card%208%20-%20Robot%20Turtle&amp;category=%5BCurriculum%20Activity%20Book%5D%5BEducational%20&amp;%20Dacta%5D%5BTechnic%5D\">9700b8<\/a>, proposed a robotic turtle that could be used to draw lines like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logo_(programming_language)#Turtle_and_graphics\">Logo Turtle<\/a> (in fact, Interface A was used used with a LEGO variant of the Logo language) or even a lne follower!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the exactly parts to build a 9700b8 robotic turtle but\u00a0 have enough TECHNIC bricks already available at that time so created my own robotic turtle&#8230; the Python Turtle \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LEGO Interface A - the Python Turtle\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NVY-Ho8WwiI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I think <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seymour_Papert\">Dr. Seymour Papert<\/a> would like this turtle.<\/p>\n<p>Source available <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JorgePe\/InterfaceA\/blob\/master\/turtle.py\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This post is part 4  of 4 of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/series\/lego-interface-a\" class=\"series-317\" title=\"LEGO Interface A\">LEGO Interface A<\/a><\/div><p>In 1987 LEGO released several Activity Cards with examples to be used with the Interface A. One particular Activity Card, the 9700b8, proposed a robotic turtle that could be used to draw lines like the Logo Turtle (in fact, Interface A was used used with a LEGO variant of the Logo language) or even a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/2017\/lego-interface-a-the-python-turtle\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar a ler<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LEGO Interface A &#8211; the Python Turtle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[317],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sem-categoria","series-lego-interface-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Mhyv-jr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}