ProtoSnap Contributors Guide

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This ProtoSnap Contributors Guide connects your XO to the real world of electronics, sensors and activators -- using SparkFun's $29.95 ProtoSnap - Pro Mini. We use the Logo-like Turtle Blocks<ref>Turtle Blocks was previously known as Turtle Art</ref> visual programming environment initially, but later Scratch & Etoys are expected too. Please ask questions on the unleashkids@googlegroups.com mailing list! You can join right here: http://groups.google.com/group/unleashkids

These instructions have been tested on the XO-1 and XO-4 Touch laptop using the latest 13.2.0.

Some deployments are using older releases such as 11.3.1 in Haiti 2013. This release has not yet been tested.

Ingredients

Recipe

  • Install 13.2.0 onto your XO laptop
  • Install the TurtleBots-22 activity<ref>TurtleBots is a repackaging of TurtleBlocks with the Arduino plugin already present</ref>,
  • Return to the Sugar Home View and launch the TurtleBots Activity. Load the sample TurtleBlocks project here:
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:TurtleBlocks_Activity.ta

Screenshots

Screenshot of TurtleBlocks Activity 3.png Itdaniher--photo.JPG

See Also

Notes

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