[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-08-22

[Alan Kay]

Looks great Bert!

Cheers,

Alan




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>From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>To: iaep SugarLabs <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>Cc: Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
>Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 8:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-08-22
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>On 22.08.2011, at 17:50, Walter Bender wrote:
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>> == Sugar Digest ==
>> 
>> 1. The OLPC XO 1.75 machines (beta units) are starting to be
>> distributed to developers. This machine is ARM based, which means that
>> it will have superior battery life once all of the fine-tuning is
>> complete. It also means that it uses some different components, e.g.,
>> audio circuitry, so there is some driver work to be done. But so far,
>> so good.
>> 
>> One of the nice things about the 1.75 is that the OLPC engineering
>> team threw in a few additional sensors. Saadia Husain Baloch got the
>> accelerometer working and I immediately wrote a Turtle Art plug-in
>> (included with v114). Saadia wrote a fun 'etch-a-sketch' program in
>> Turtle Art that works by shaking the machine.
>> 
>> Not to be outdone, I added an enhancement to the Portfolio activity
>> while I was on a short flight last week. If you hit the left side of
>> the XO, it will advance to the next slide. If you hit the right side
>> of the XO, it will return to the previous slide. The person sitting
>> next to me on the plane told me, "That's the strangest thing I have
>> ever seen anyone do with a computer."
>> 
>> The bottom line is the more sensors the better: we want to give young
>> learners more opportunities to observe and interactive with the
>> physical world.
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>The accelerometer is fun to use indeed. I just made an Etoys project that lets you steer a ball by tilting the XO-1.75. Find a description and video at:
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>http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2011/08/squeak-etoys-on-arm-based-xo-175.html
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>- Bert -
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