[Sugar-devel] USB permissions for educational robots

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

Hi,
In a few of months, all our High Schools (of Uruguay) will receive and robotic kit (Lego).
At "Universidad de la República", "Facultad de Ingeniería" we are workingwith it and the XO...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HRbDLO7LM

In other parallel road, we are working on a 2.0 version of the Butia Robot
www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia

That uses USB4all IO board  which resulted from a thesis given at ourUniversity (also will have arduino compatibility)
http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/grupos/mina/pGrado/pgusb/

USB4all is based on 18f4550 pic.The vendor is Microchip, SYSFS{idVendor}=="04d8"And have: productID=0x000b //bootloader          productID=0x000c //pic18f4550 generic comunication

The actual Sugar image, only have permissions for LEGO WeDo.
If you see in: /etc/udev/rules.d you find the correspondient: "30-olpc-wedo.rules".
The file add this rule:
SYSFS{idVendor}=="0694", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", GROUP="dialout", MODE="0660"
This means: 0694 is LEGO                   0003 the model: WeDo
To the NXT we need add: {idProduct}=="0002"
But, for each model add a new line.. not is a good form..
Exist another way, a generic rule:
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0694", GROUP="lego", MODE="0660" 
That says: if is USB and fabricated by 0694 (LEGO) lets 0660 (4: read+ 2: write)
If add this permissions to "lego" group, we need create it..
But, we don't make it, an use an existing group like "root"? Or another... Suggestions?
We can make a generic group "robot" that have permissions for: lego wedo, lego nxt, butia, etc...
Regards!
Alan 		 	   		  
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