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re: Big Trak: They compare it to a Logo turtle but it was never really as interesting as that. You could program Big Trak, but only with a straight series of co
by codeulike 8y ago
re: Big Trak: They compare it to a Logo turtle but it was never really as interesting as that. You could program Big Trak, but only with a straight series of commands. No loops or anything interesting like that. Also the damn thing wouldn't turn very accurately, e.g. you ask for 90 degrees, you might well get 120. So good luck getting it to actually go where you want. It did look really cool though.
- beamatronic 8y agoThere was a repeat RPT command/button
- codeulike 8y agoYep but it could only repeat the previous step, rather than a group of steps, iirc. So difficult to do anything interesting with it. edit: I stand corrected. The repeat command could be told how many of the previous steps to loop. But it only looped once. I guess 8-year-old me should have read the manual. http://www.theoldrobots.com/book30/Bigtrak_Operators.pdf http://www.theoldrobots.com/book30/Bigtrak_Operators.pdf
- wazoox 8y agoMine was pretty precise. Probably depends upon the flooring :) It wasn't very interesting but I played with it a lot.
- FooHentai 8y ago>Also the damn thing wouldn't turn very accurately, e.g. you ask for 90 degrees, you might well get 120. Prolly because the turns were programmed in minutes, not degrees. If you asked for 90, you would get one and a half full rotations :D