it will be great that the physics plugin could interact with the turtle, I mean that if I define a polygon in some place of the screen and then I ask the turtle to move, the turtle could interact with the object depending on the physics properties of that object (density, friction, etc). With butiá team we are working in a butiá simulator[1] build as a plugin for turtle blocks, at the moment only the distance sensor block, the grayscale sensor block and the push button block of the butia palette are simulated, so if I dont have the robot I could test the same program made for the robot but in a virtual world. In this case having the turtle with more physics interaction will be great for a more realistic simulation but also could be good to implement virtual Rube Goldberg machines... imagine many turtles moving in this machines at the same time ;) .... regards andrés
reference [1] http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Grupo_Simulador 2012/1/8 Walter Bender <[email protected]>: > 2012/1/8 Dr. Gerald Ardito <[email protected]>: >> What about an Activity (maybe branching from Physics) that would allow >> children to build their own virtual Rube Goldberg machines? > > The Physics plug in to Turtle Art might be a start. > > -walter > >> I would be happy to help. >> >> Gerald >> >> 2012/1/8 Walter Bender <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/nyregion/brooklyns-joseph-herscher-and-his-rube-goldberg-machines.html >>> >>> -walter >>> >>> -- >>> Walter Bender >>> Sugar Labs >>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
