<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Looks great Bert!</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Alan<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> iaep SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, August 29, 2011 8:59 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-08-22<br></font><br>On 22.08.2011, at 17:50, Walter Bender wrote:<br><br>> == Sugar Digest ==<br>> <br>> 1. The OLPC XO 1.75 machines (beta units) are starting to be<br>> distributed to developers. This machine is ARM based, which means that<br>> it will have superior battery life once all of the fine-tuning is<br>> complete. It also means that it uses some different components, e.g.,<br>> audio circuitry, so there is some driver work to be done. But so far,<br>> so good.<br>> <br>> One of the nice things about the 1.75 is that the OLPC engineering<br>> team threw in a few additional sensors. Saadia Husain Baloch got the<br>> accelerometer working and I immediately wrote a Turtle Art plug-in<br>> (included with v114). Saadia wrote a fun 'etch-a-sketch' program in<br>> Turtle Art that works by
shaking the machine.<br>> <br>> Not to be outdone, I added an enhancement to the Portfolio activity<br>> while I was on a short flight last week. If you hit the left side of<br>> the XO, it will advance to the next slide. If you hit the right side<br>> of the XO, it will return to the previous slide. The person sitting<br>> next to me on the plane told me, "That's the strangest thing I have<br>> ever seen anyone do with a computer."<br>> <br>> The bottom line is the more sensors the better: we want to give young<br>> learners more opportunities to observe and interactive with the<br>> physical world.<br><br>The accelerometer is fun to use indeed. I just made an Etoys project that lets you steer a ball by tilting the XO-1.75. Find a description and video at:<br><br><a href="http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2011/08/squeak-etoys-on-arm-based-xo-175.html"
target="_blank">http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2011/08/squeak-etoys-on-arm-based-xo-175.html</a><br><br>- Bert -<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br><a ymailto="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>