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About the WeDo
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The `Lego WeDo`_ is a tethered-over-USB sensing and robotics toolkit produced by Lego for the educational market.
It's gotten lots of press, including a favorable review on the One Laptop Per Child blog, on `deployments and training in Peru`_.
It's supported by Scratch(on Windows and OSX) and by Lego's proprietary software(on Windows.)
It prominently features the LB1836_ motor driver and the LM358_ op-amp, as well as an epoxy blob with USB support.
The digital communication protocol used by the Power Functions system is documented on `Philo's Awesome Page`_.
Requirements
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- Python 2.7+
- pyusb (setup.py should take care of installing the dependency)
Installation
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From pypi:
pip install wedo
From the source tree:
./setup.py install
How to Use it
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>>> from wedo import WeDo
>>> wd = WeDo()
# Activating the first motor full forward:
>>> wd.motor_a = 100
# Activating the second motor half speed/force backward:
>>> wd.motor_b = -50
# Current value of the tilt sensor:
>>> wd.tilt
# Current distance value in meters of the distance sensor:
>>> wd.distance
Contributors
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`Ian Daniher`_
Tony Forster
`Walter Bender`_
`Guillaume Binet`_
`Alan Aguiar`_
.. _`Lego WeDo`: http://education.lego.com/en-us/lego-education-product-database/wedo/9580-lego-education-wedo-construction-set/
.. _LB1836: http://semicon.sanyo.com/en/ds_e/EN3947F.pdf
.. _LM358: http://www.national.com/ds/LM/LM158.pdf
.. _`deployments and training in Peru`: http://blog.laptop.org/2011/02/12/lego-wedo-oloc-peru/
.. _`Philo's Awesome Page`: http://www.philohome.com/pf/LEGO_Power_Functions_RC.pdf
.. _`Guillaume Binet`: https://github.com/gbin
.. _`Ian Daniher`: https://github.com/itdaniher
.. _`Walter Bender`: https://github.com/walterbender
.. _`Alan Aguiar`: https://github.com/alanjas
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