[IAEP] DesignBlocks

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
> e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
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>> On a somewhat related note:
>>
>> Microsoft Research introduced TouchStudio for Windows Phone 7
>> (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchstudio/default.aspx)
>> to allow development right on the phones the other day. The video
>> (
>> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Peli/TouchStudio-Script-Your-Phone-on-Your-Phone-Reloaded
>> )
>> is well worth a look in my opinion.
>>
>> Another similar effort is the Catdroid project
>> (http://code.google.com/p/catroid/) which is being developed at Graz
>> University of Technology in Graz, Austria - and currently sponsored via
>> GSoC - and aims to be "an on-device graphical programming language for
>> Android devices that is inspired by the Scratch".
>>
>> While it's early days for both projects I think that anyone working on
>> efforts in this area should keep an eye on them. Lessons learned from
>> these (touchscreen) on-device environments could be particularly useful
>> looking towards the XO-3 and other tablets.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>> Am 06.06.2011 20:13, schrieb ana.cichero:
>> > There is a pretty group of users for Processing here in Montevideo!
>> >
>> > I think the mailing list and the group is still active, some of them
>> > could get envolved.
>> >
>> > mnav-arte-codigo at googlegroups.com
>> > <mailto:mnav-arte-codigo at googlegroups.com>      ( I have their
>> addresses
>> > in other case )
>> >
>> >
>> >     It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing
>> >     (which is Java-based) to Sugar.
>> >
>> >     -walter
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     Walter Bender
>> >     Sugar Labs
>> >     http://www.sugarlabs.org
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> More info about DesignBlocks actual state
>
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> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evhan55/designblocks-visual-programming-for-artists/posts/84640
>
> And also I found an interesting way to control
> arduino via JS, (Unfortunately it also needs flash).
>
>  http://www.schillmania.com/projects/arduino-js/
>
> Anyone knows similar projects ?
>
> Still the Java based arduino IDE is much more powerful.
>
> cheers.
>
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Butia is a nice way to control Arduino (from Turtle Art). No flash
required... just Python.

regards.

-walter

-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
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