<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi,<div><br></div><div>You know the Butia robot?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/">http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>First, we use a Arduino Mega baseboard to build our Butia.</div><div>Now, we use a more inexpensive board: USB4Butia:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Usb4butia">http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Usb4butia</a> </div><div><br></div><div>That board (USB4Butia) can be make with low cost and with your hands:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/USB4buti%C3%A0">http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/USB4buti%C3%A0</a> </div><div><br></div><div>All the software/hardware is open!</div><div>The more expensive component in the board is the micro: PIC 18F4550</div><div><br></div><div>We have a TurtleBlocks plugin to control the robot:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt#Butia">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt#Butia</a> </div><div><br></div><div>And we add Lego NxT and Lego WeDo plugins in the TurtleBlocks, making a</div><div>"fork" called: TurtleBots:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4434">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4434</a> </div><div><br></div><div>You think make a similar plugin for the XOurduino?</div><div>Maybe, we can help you..</div><div><br></div><div>Regards!</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 03:28:46 -0400<br>> Subject: XO Sticks and XOrduino<br>> From: cscott@laptop.org<br>> To: devel@lists.laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> <br>> I have about 20 XO Sticks and XOrduinos to give away to developers. Details at:<br>> http://cananian.livejournal.com/66654.html<br>> --scott<br>> <br>> -- <br>> ( http://cscott.net )<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Devel mailing list<br>> Devel@lists.laptop.org<br>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel<br></div></div> </div></body> </html>