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

[Dr. Gerald Ardito]

Emiliano,

Thanks.
I was working with Scratch yesterday with some students and noticed that
they have a new category of Examples that pertains to WeDo.
Can't wait to play!

Gerald

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Emiliano Pastorino <
epastorino at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:

> Gerald,
>
> I haven't worked with WeDo, but it seems to be supported in Scracht:
> http://info.scratch.mit.edu/WeDo
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito <
> gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Martin,
>>
>> Thanks. This is all really exciting.
>> I am really looking forward to connecting the XOs to probes, robots, etc.
>> so that the students can experience manipulating physical and digital
>> objects.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Martin Langhoff <
>> martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito
>>> <gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > 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?
>>>
>>> It's a headline feature for 11.2.0 which is planned to be XO-1 and
>>> XO-1.5 . Unless we hit unexpected problems, XO-1 is supported.
>>>
>>> If you look under the hood, it will be a bunch of rpms that get
>>> integrated into 11.2.0, plus activity updates that make good use of
>>> them. In some cases, actiivites already support boards / robots so
>>> what happens is that it is now covered by our QA work, so bugs will be
>>> discovered and fixed.
>>>
>>> Crafty adventurous people can probably get them installed on 10.1.x
>>> :-) but that'll be unsupported.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> m
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>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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