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

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

Walter,

That's great. Thanks.
Gerald

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ing. Emiliano Pastorino
> >> Centro Ceibal
> >> Av. Italia 6201 Ed. Los Ceibos
> >> Montevideo, Uruguay
> >> Tel: (598) 2601 5773 int.: 2232
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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