TurtleBlocks is a blocks-based version of classic Logo turtles that makes it easy to create tangible artifacts with a laser cutter or vinyl cutter. Using TurtleBlocks, people without any previous programming or design experience can quickly make personally satisfying physical artifacts.
For example, here's a TurtleBlocks program for drawing a star:
 Here's the resulting star.  We can take the boundary of the star ...  ... and then use the boundary to instruct a laser cutter to cut a star out of plastic or wood ...  ... or use it to instruct a vinyl cutter to cut a star out of cardstock or adhesive-backed vinyl:  As another example, below is a TurtleBlocks sierpinski procedure for drawing Sierpinksi gaskets, and a program that invokes this procedure to draw a 5-level gasket:  Here is the drawing created by the turtle:  Here is the boundary of the drawing:  And here is a wooden artifact cut by a laser cutter from the boundary lines:  |
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