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A veteran computer educator with over four decades of teaching experience shares Logo3D, a free web-based programming environment he co-developed with AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT across 14 iterative versions. Building on the classic Logo turtle graphics language beloved in the 1980s and a forgotten iPad app that first introduced up-down 3D commands, Logo3D lets kids write simple code to generate three-dimensional shapes — then export them as STL files for 3D printing or OBJ files for use in VR environments like VRChat. The latest version introduces a 'sheets' command that creates solid planes rather than wireframe lines, enabling true 3D solid modeling through code. With no commercial ambitions, the creator is gifting the entire project — source code, zip files, and AI-ready prompts — to the public, inviting educators, hackers, and curious learners to extend it further. This talk is a candid, inspiring conversation about lifelong learning, human-AI collaboration, and the radical act of giving your life's work away for free.
Using Claude, ChatGPT, and now a little bit of muse I’m on my 14th version of logo3D, I just wanna give it away. I don’t even want my name attached to it as far as I’m concerned the AI’s wrote it with my guidance. In the early 1980s I used to teach kids computer classes mostly using Basica, it was very limiting. It was boring for them, making a few little shapes and repetitive words. The programming, language, Logo, worked on an apple too, and then within a couple years it worked on window systems. It was a lot more fun for kids and gave them concepts like sub routines if then statements real programming skills for a beginner. I got inspired about seven years ago, bumping into a iPad app where it had added the up-and-down commands to the traditional logo language so that you could make three dimensional shapes. Unfortunately, Apple shut down that app because it was written in 32 bit and the authors were too busy to redo it to 64 so it’s off the App Store and very unknown what the AI helped me create an extension of that that runs as a web-based program or on a local folder and has exports STL for 3-D printing, and OBJ exports that allow it to be brought into VR headsets. I’m using it to create test worlds in VR chat version 14 especially has been a big jump because I asked the AI’s to add a command which I called sheets, which makes planes instead of lines and then can be shut off with the command nonsheets. This allows me to make shapes in 3-D that logo could not have done before export them as an OBJ and then add stereoscopic pairs using a Unity3D stereoscopic Shader. I am 76 years old and trying to just give everything away. I don’t wanna do any more business and I don’t want to spend time marketing it. That’s why I’m here. I was hoping I could just give the URLs both of which contain zip files of everything I have and can be fed back into Claude ChatGPT or probably some others and ask them to go further add commands whatever whatever so kind of an open source participant for somebody who’s not really in that particular group of people that follow the normal open source get hub protocols. Sorry I’m too lazy anyway the best version for kids now especially homeschoolers or ones that would appreciate learning to code is currently at: https://webpage-1.com when you click that it jumps to the URL of whatever version I thought was best tested so right now it would take you to https://webpage-1.com/logo/gc11 Once yoy see that the name of the file is gc11 you just append another slash then gc11.zip. That’s currently the best one to give away but if somebody likes the idea of exporting to VR headsets, they could get the entire zip file by going to: https://webpage-1.com/logo/cu14/cu14.zip or run it online by leaving off the cu14.zip
Tags: coding for kids, Logo programming, 3D graphics, AI collaboration, open source, homeschooling, STEM education, turtle graphics, VR education, 3D printing, generational wisdom, free tools, creative coding, maker education, ChatGPT, Claude AI