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

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Kevin
Thats good! Please document somewhere all the steps you took. 

We should bring all the robotics/sensor stuff together somewhere. (I saw there was free Linux software for the Picaxe too). Deployments can then choose what I/O hardware suits them.

Tony

> 
> I have a Ti Launchpad (a $4.30 USD + shipping?) micro-controller board that
> uses the msp430 line. I was able to compile msp430-gcc on the xo-1.5 and use it
> with mspdebug to upload firmware to it. I would assume someone with more
> knowledge than me could add a few more bits or a simple circut and add some
> software to turtle art to make it do something like the picaxe. The launchpad
> has 2 simple switches, 2 LEDS and an internal temp sensor (on 1 of the 2
> included chips) and it includes a usb cable.
> 
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