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Exactly! The background of turtles go back to graphics but even in the 70s or so there were “turtlebot” pen-drawing toys. ROS simply adopted the convention
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American coworkers are talking about the link to LOGO. And indeed from this post from 2009 about the release of turtlesim I read:
In an effort to simplify ROS adoption for new users, we developed turtlesim, a LOGO-inspired tool that provides a hands-on approach to learning ROS basics.
Exactly! The background of turtles go back to graphics but even in the 70s or so there were “turtlebot” pen-drawing toys. ROS simply adopted the convention
I talked about this a bit in my interview on the ROS Developers Podcast.
https://www.theconstructsim.com/rdp04... Starting around 32:44
As we do with others who post a "link only answer", I'd ask you to post a description/summary of what you said in your interview, here in your answer. If/when the podcast disappears (which happens quite often), we would at least have the textual version here in your answer.
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Hi @130s, shouldn't ROS Discourse be more appropriate for this discussion?
@parzival This isn't really a discussion topic so it's better here as a question.