There is a development in austria (german language only) <http://www.fhstp.ac.at/studium/technologie/mt/news/09/wii-wird-zum-whiteboard>
At least some parts are open source - don't ask me about details but may be it is worth a look. gerhard Christopher Chan schrieb: > I believe David Groos wanted this to hit the list and not just me. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Betreff: > Re: compatible interactive whiteboard > Von: > David Groos <[email protected]> > Datum: > Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:31:29 -0500 > An: > Christopher Chan <[email protected]> > > An: > Christopher Chan <[email protected]> > > > Here are some of my thoughts: > > The wiiboard is awesome and the way to go I think BUT I will start to check > it out this summer and we'll see :) It will take a lot of work. Is there > some place on an edubuntu wiki page where people are consolidate their > experiences/knolwedge with this? > > Smartboard works w/ Edubuntu? That's great, didn't know that. Does it have > to run as a local app? is this a linux version of their Notebook software? > how updated is it? > > Referring back to a few days ago (March > 2<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2009-March/005186.html>) > Christopher alerted us to the fact that the Promethean people have created a > Linux version of their new activeinspire software (though only 32 bit at > this time) and that is truly significant. I've got colleagues using the > smart board and others using the promethean and while the board is what > draws one attention, the capabilities of the software is what pays off in > the day to day use... This is a long way of saying that the software angle > is critical in what I've seen. For those unfamiliar with the market, > promethean is a competitor to smartboard and many people prefer it to a > smart board though they both have their advantages and disadvantages. > > Good luck > David > > PS I just did a search on wiki.edubuntu.org for 'smartboard' and there were > 2 hits: 1 in catalan which I don't know what it said and another of an irc > chat. Feel free to beat me to putting up a page there on > 'smartboards'--I'll be looking again this summer and if there I'll add to > it, if it isn't there I'll add it. > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Christopher Chan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> You could supplement your Smartboard with a wiimote and a projector to >>> create a wiiboard. Here are my notes for doing this under Ubuntu >>> Intrepid Ibex 8.10: >>> >>> http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/msg/fdc31300fd432f7d >>> >>> This wiiboard is a variation of Johnny Lee's demonstration at TED: >>> >>> >> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html >> Do you have a hack for a second or even a third mouse button? >> >> >> cheers, >> >> Christopher >> >> -- >> edubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >> > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
