[Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

[Emiliano Pastorino]

Actually, I've realized that we have the new kit:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10174
The difference is that it includes a flex sensor.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Emiliano Pastorino <
epastorino at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:

>  Emiliano has Arduino + TA working, I think. Needs to be reworked as a
>> plugin in the new TA plugins model (which seems excellent).
>
>
> Yes, it's working. We don't know if we're going to use them, but I plan to
> create
> a plugin anyway.
>
> On the Uy/Ceibal side, I really want to know which Arduino they are
>> using, and the exact sensors too. So we document that in wiki.l.o, buy
>> the exact same kit here, and fold it into our test plans.
>
>
> We bought a kit from sparkfun.com last year which I think is no longer
> available
> (dev-09284)
> Anyway, these are the items icluded:
> Arduino Duemilanove (ATmega328)
> Light sensor SEN-09088 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9088>
> Buzzer COM-07950 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/7950>
> Trim pot COM-9288 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9288>
> Temperature sensor SEN-00250 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/250>
> Tricolor LED COM-09264 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9264>
> Button COM-09190 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9190>
> Jumper wires PRT-08431 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8431>
> We also bought a motor shield for driving more motors:
> http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/
>
> Turtle Art Arduino, at least when I last ran it, requires Firmata software
>> in the Arduino
>
>
> Yes, we're using Firmata in the Arduino.
>
> Correct. The current TA+NXT is based on the nxt_python library, which
>> works "tethered", so the NXT controller acts as a dumb slave of the
>> XO.
>
>
> I think there's a function in nxt-python that lets you upload a program to
> the nxt brick. I'll check it out later. Right now I'm working on a plugin
> for
> the new plugins model for TA.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Tony. Added to the wiki page
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM, <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Turtle Art Arduino, at least when I last ran it, requires Firmata
>>> software in the Arduino. So the Arduino is acting as a dumb I/O expansion
>>> board and is not being programmed as an autonomous robot. The user is
>>> programming in TurtleArt. I used the Arduino Duemilanove but I don't think
>>> the version matters much.
>>> http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/search/label/Arduino
>>>
>>> > Emiliano has Arduino + TA working, I think. Needs to be reworked as a
>>> > plugin in the new TA plugins model (which seems excellent).
>>> >
>>> > On the Uy/Ceibal side, I really want to know which Arduino they are
>>> > using, and the exact sensors too. So we document that in wiki.l.o, buy
>>> > the exact same kit here, and fold it into our test plans.
>>> >
>>>
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Ing. Emiliano Pastorino
Centro Ceibal
Av. Italia 6201 Ed. Los Ceibos
Montevideo, Uruguay
Tel: (598) 2601 5773 int.: 2232
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