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

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
<gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
> Emiliano,
> Thanks.
> I was working with Scratch yesterday with some students and noticed that
> they have a new category of Examples that pertains to WeDo.
> Can't wait to play!
> Gerald

FYI, there is also an Olin student working on a WeDo plugin for Turtle Art.

-walter

>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Emiliano Pastorino
> <epastorino at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
>>
>> Gerald,
>>
>> I haven't worked with WeDo, but it seems to be supported in Scracht:
>> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/WeDo
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
>> <gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Martin,
>>> Thanks. This is all really exciting.
>>> I am really looking forward to connecting the XOs to probes, robots, etc.
>>> so that the students can experience manipulating physical and digital
>>> objects.
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Martin Langhoff
>>> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
>>>> <gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > I am very interested in this functionality and that of using WeDo
>>>> > Robots.
>>>> > Would this be available for the XOs? Both versions or only the XO 1.5?
>>>> > How would that work?
>>>>
>>>> It's a headline feature for 11.2.0 which is planned to be XO-1 and
>>>> XO-1.5 . Unless we hit unexpected problems, XO-1 is supported.
>>>>
>>>> If you look under the hood, it will be a bunch of rpms that get
>>>> integrated into 11.2.0, plus activity updates that make good use of
>>>> them. In some cases, actiivites already support boards / robots so
>>>> what happens is that it is now covered by our QA work, so bugs will be
>>>> discovered and fixed.
>>>>
>>>> Crafty adventurous people can probably get them installed on 10.1.x
>>>> :-) but that'll be unsupported.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> m
>>>> --
>>>>  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>>>>  martin at laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
>>>>  - ask interesting questions
>>>>  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
>>>>  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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Walter Bender
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