[Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

I am very interested in this functionality and that of using WeDo Robots.
Would this be available for the XOs? Both versions or only the XO 1.5?

How would that work?

Thanks.
Gerald

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Emiliano Pastorino <
epastorino at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:

>  Emiliano has Arduino + TA working, I think. Needs to be reworked as a
>> plugin in the new TA plugins model (which seems excellent).
>
>
> Yes, it's working. We don't know if we're going to use them, but I plan to
> create
> a plugin anyway.
>
> On the Uy/Ceibal side, I really want to know which Arduino they are
>> using, and the exact sensors too. So we document that in wiki.l.o, buy
>> the exact same kit here, and fold it into our test plans.
>
>
> We bought a kit from sparkfun.com last year which I think is no longer
> available
> (dev-09284)
> Anyway, these are the items icluded:
> Arduino Duemilanove (ATmega328)
> Light sensor SEN-09088 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9088>
> Buzzer COM-07950 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/7950>
> Trim pot COM-9288 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9288>
> Temperature sensor SEN-00250 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/250>
> Tricolor LED COM-09264 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9264>
> Button COM-09190 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9190>
> Jumper wires PRT-08431 <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8431>
> We also bought a motor shield for driving more motors:
> http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/
>
> Turtle Art Arduino, at least when I last ran it, requires Firmata software
>> in the Arduino
>
>
> Yes, we're using Firmata in the Arduino.
>
> Correct. The current TA+NXT is based on the nxt_python library, which
>> works "tethered", so the NXT controller acts as a dumb slave of the
>> XO.
>
>
> I think there's a function in nxt-python that lets you upload a program to
> the nxt brick. I'll check it out later. Right now I'm working on a plugin
> for
> the new plugins model for TA.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Tony. Added to the wiki page
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM, <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Turtle Art Arduino, at least when I last ran it, requires Firmata
>>> software in the Arduino. So the Arduino is acting as a dumb I/O expansion
>>> board and is not being programmed as an autonomous robot. The user is
>>> programming in TurtleArt. I used the Arduino Duemilanove but I don't think
>>> the version matters much.
>>> http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/search/label/Arduino
>>>
>>> > Emiliano has Arduino + TA working, I think. Needs to be reworked as a
>>> > plugin in the new TA plugins model (which seems excellent).
>>> >
>>> > On the Uy/Ceibal side, I really want to know which Arduino they are
>>> > using, and the exact sensors too. So we document that in wiki.l.o, buy
>>> > the exact same kit here, and fold it into our test plans.
>>> >
>>>
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