Very cool! <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On 22.08.2011, at 17:50, Walter Bender wrote: > == Sugar Digest == > > 1. The OLPC XO 1.75 machines (beta units) are starting to be > distributed to developers. This machine is ARM based, which means that > it will have superior battery life once all of the fine-tuning is > complete. It also means that it uses some different components, e.g., > audio circuitry, so there is some driver work to be done. But so far, > so good. > > One of the nice things about the 1.75 is that the OLPC engineering > team threw in a few additional sensors. Saadia Husain Baloch got the > accelerometer working and I immediately wrote a Turtle Art plug-in > (included with v114). Saadia wrote a fun 'etch-a-sketch' program in > Turtle Art that works by shaking the machine. > > Not to be outdone, I added an enhancement to the Portfolio activity > while I was on a short flight last week. If you hit the left side of > the XO, it will advance to the next slide. If you hit the right side > of the XO, it will return to the previous slide. The person sitting > next to me on the plane told me, "That's the strangest thing I have > ever seen anyone do with a computer." > > The bottom line is the more sensors the better: we want to give young > learners more opportunities to observe and interactive with the > physical world. 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: <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> - Bert - _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div>