[IAEP] Sugarized binaries? was Re: users doing python in XOs

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:43:31 -0500
> From: walter.bender at gmail.com
> To: yamaplos at gmail.com
> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; lists at dcorking.com
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugarized binaries? was Re: users doing python in XOs
> 
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi David, thanks
> >
> > Texas Instrument's MSP430 Launchpad. at $4.30 including shipping, it's
> > probably the most affordable, bang-for-the-buck MCU/experimentation board
> > combo ever. Etc., no need to go into a full blown advertisement :-)
> >
> > I have managed, with a few coughs and starts, to run it in several
> > iterations of OLPC OS, using plain old XO-1 units.
> > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_MSP430_Install (due for some
> > code revision)
> >
> > The /sudo/ problem we are facing is specific to Uruguay, where their
> > benevolent administrators have blocked several features on the XOs OS
> >
> > I don't do Windows, thank you very much. (though UY is painting itself in
> > the corner on that one also, by embracing NXT)
> 
> FWIW, there is an NXT plugin for Turtle Art. No need to use Windows.
An example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HRbDLO7LM
One button to up, one to down...
Programmed in TurtleBlocks + Plugin Lego NxT

> > Personally, I am more for the command line.
> > My reasoning is that those, very few, able to take full benefit of working
> > with microcontrollers are also the ones who can grock command line no
> > problem, sort of a correlation between their personal attributes and
> > potentials. More importantly, text based coding is Real World, and
> > definitely not for everybody.
> > I see that working for/with them is important, as it is those few the ones
> > who might have the biggest individual impact in nation building, while their
> > special and greater needs dismissed and potential for brilliance often lost
> > in the name of Procrustean egalitarianism (standard Yamarant).
> >
> > Still, I am enormously impressed by things like this color follower, that
> > uses the XO camera and processes data in Tortugarte, then directs the
> > motors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nnc9Rn9GbY
> >
> > I see there is room for tile-based stuff, though for now there are deeper
> > issues I have not yet solved...
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/03/2012 02:35 PM, David Corking wrote:
> >>
> >> Yama: Which model of microcontroller will you use? Which
> >> programmer/connector will you use?
> >>
> >> Yes, I think your mspdebug experience might be a 'user' and 'group'
> >> thing on the USB device, but it might be a kernel driver, which
> >> normally needs root access.
> >>
> >> If you use Windows on your netbooks one nice way to install the GNU
> >> toolchain to compile C programs is Red Hat's cygwin project:
> >> http://cygwin.com/
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >> p.s. Have you seen Physical Etoys? It is free tile scripting for
> >> microcontrollers, though I don't think an XO bundle has been made. Low
> >> ceiling, but interesting.
> >> http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/
> >> Also Squeakbot and PhidgetLab
> >> http://www.planete-sciences.org/robot/boiteabots/
> >> http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/phidgetlab/index.html
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