[Sugar-devel] Turtle Blocks and sensors

[Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn]

> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:48:32 -0400
> From: walter.bender at gmail.com
> To: dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy
> CC: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle Blocks and sensors
> 
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Castelo
> <dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> > We are using this activity
> > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4027 and the differents
> > blocks to use sensors in XO and Classmate machine.
> > We realized that in a Classmate machine the blocks "resistance" and
> > "voltage" are not displayed.
> > We want to know if the activity checks if the laptop could use this feature
> > or has a "hardcode" check to distinguish XO's machine for others.
> 
> The resistance and voltage sensor input rely on special hardware in
> the XO laptops that is not present in the Classmate machines, hence
> those blocks are *not* available on the Classmate.
The XO haves a capacitor that can be disabled by software. Others pc'shave that capacitor and affect the measure because prevents the oscillationof the measure.
Regards!
Alan
> 
> regards.
> 
> -walter
> 
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Regards.
> > --
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