Tony, I have seen pictures of the Butia with the XO driving the vehicle. I am having trouble with the Spanish. I have been playing with the TI Launchpad as a potential robot "brain." Walter had offered making some plugins for Turtle Art for this potentially. I am also wanting to play with the XO and Arduino as well. I will share any progress.
Gerald On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Tony Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering how this TI MSP430 running on XO 1 - Robotics! relates to the > Butia project in Uruguay. Is this a better solution? > > What appeals to me the most about Butia is that it enable the child to its > own XO driving the vehicle. Can this be done with the MSP430? > > In Uruguay there was a demonstration of the Lego robot - pathetic! It was > tied to an umbilical cord. It was pre-built so the children had no idea of > how it worked or what was going on inside. And, of course, it is frightfully > expensive. > > The Butia project has developed a control board which is designed to be > reproduced by any one. I am hoping that someone in SF will undertake to > build the Butia kit. Could the MSP430 provide a cheaper and easier to build > control board for Butia? > > Yours, > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
