<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 22.08.2011, at 17:50, Walter Bender wrote:<br>
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> == Sugar Digest ==<br>
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> 1. The OLPC XO 1.75 machines (beta units) are starting to be<br>
> distributed to developers. This machine is ARM based, which means that<br>
> it will have superior battery life once all of the fine-tuning is<br>
> complete. It also means that it uses some different components, e.g.,<br>
> audio circuitry, so there is some driver work to be done. But so far,<br>
> so good.<br>
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> One of the nice things about the 1.75 is that the OLPC engineering<br>
> team threw in a few additional sensors. Saadia Husain Baloch got the<br>
> accelerometer working and I immediately wrote a Turtle Art plug-in<br>
> (included with v114). Saadia wrote a fun 'etch-a-sketch' program in<br>
> Turtle Art that works by shaking the machine.<br>
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> Not to be outdone, I added an enhancement to the Portfolio activity<br>
> while I was on a short flight last week. If you hit the left side of<br>
> the XO, it will advance to the next slide. If you hit the right side<br>
> of the XO, it will return to the previous slide. The person sitting<br>
> next to me on the plane told me, "That's the strangest thing I have<br>
> ever seen anyone do with a computer."<br>
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> The bottom line is the more sensors the better: we want to give young<br>
> learners more opportunities to observe and interactive with the<br>
> physical world.<br>
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</div>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:<br>
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<a href="http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2011/08/squeak-etoys-on-arm-based-xo-175.html" target="_blank">http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2011/08/squeak-etoys-on-arm-based-xo-175.html</a><br>
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- Bert -<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Very awesome stuff indeed!! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<div><br><div>editor, OLPC News [<a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a>]<br>
volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [<a href="http://www.olpc.at" target="_blank">www.olpc.at</a>]</div><div><br></div><div>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@derndorfer.eu" target="_blank">christoph@derndorfer.eu</a></div><div><br>
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