<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:48:32 -0400</span><br><div>> From: walter.bender@gmail.com<br>> To: dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy<br>> CC: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle Blocks and sensors<br>> <br>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Castelo<br>> <dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:<br>> > We are using this activity<br>> > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4027 and the differents<br>> > blocks to use sensors in XO and Classmate machine.<br>> > We realized that in a Classmate machine the blocks "resistance" and<br>> > "voltage" are not displayed.<br>> > We want to know if the activity checks if the laptop could use this feature<br>> > or has a "hardcode" check to distinguish XO's machine for others.<br>> <br>> The resistance and voltage sensor input rely on special hardware in<br>> the XO laptops that is not present in the Classmate machines, hence<br>> those blocks are *not* available on the Classmate.</div><div><br></div><div>The XO haves a capacitor that can be disabled by software. Others pc's</div><div>have that capacitor and affect the measure because prevents the oscillation</div><div>of the measure.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards!</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br>> <br>> regards.<br>> <br>> -walter<br>> <br>> ><br>> > Thanks<br>> ><br>> > Regards.<br>> > --<br>> > Ing. Daniel Castelo<br>> > Plan Ceibal - Área Técnica<br>> > Avda. Italia 6201<br>> > Montevideo - Uruguay.<br>> > Tel.: 2 601 57 73 Interno 2228<br>> > E-mail : dcastelo@plan.ceibal.edu.uy<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Sugar-devel mailing list<br>> > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel<br>> ><br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Walter Bender<br>> Sugar Labs<br>> http://www.sugarlabs.org<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Sugar-devel mailing list<br>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel<br></div> </div></body> </html>