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This write-up doesn't explain how to program the device, but this page does http://docs.primotoys.com/docs/cubetto-manual.html#introduct...

Basically, you program a sequence of commands FORWARD, LEFT, RIGHT. There is also a special command FUNCTION that executes a user-specified sequence of up to four commands.

Does it allow the FUNCTION command within the definition of the function? If it does, there's a lot of non-trivial stuff with recursion to do

For instance, a stack overflow

commands = [FUNCTION]

function = [FUNCTION, FUNCTION]




So, basically a Big Trak, which had the same features.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

Big Trak also could fire it's "laser" programmatically.

My kids love it today - age 3 and 7. (Ok, I bought it used, since my parents had long ago donated mine to goodwill. Still, 35 year old toy works great.)




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