I think you guys will enjoy this: http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/technology/usb4butia_a_truly_free_as_in_freedom_input_output_board.html
all the best andres On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Andres Aguirre <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to share with you this video > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3e1YAtJPs taken a few days ago in the > robotic event called sumo.uy [1] organized by the public Uruguayan > faculty of engineering. In this event there were two challenges for > the butiá robot, were schools from Uruguay come to participate. > This video is very nice, because is the robot that was done from the > scratch by students and a teacher of a small community in Uruguay. > They modify the original design of the butiá robot and use recycled > parts of old computer components to make the IO board and to make the > chassis of the robot with the case of an old PC. > all the best! > andrés > > [1] www.fing.edu.uy/sumo.uy > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Putting the XO on top of the robot appears to me as a cute photo op >>> > thing, >>> > not a necessity. It would be amazingly cool if the XO camera would >>> > capture >>> > images that real time were processed by the XO, or man a sonar sensor, >>> > or >>> > something. So far I don't think this is happening, and the XO on the >>> > platform feels like a pour la gallerie innocent gimmick. >>> >>> In fact, the XO is part of the robot and there is a plugin for >>> TurtleBlocks that allows to use the camera as a sensor color. (see >>> followme plugin) >> >> >> Exist a "followme" plugin for the TurtleBlocks (TurtleArt) activity: >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art#FollowMe >> >> And exist a separate activity for the XO: >> >> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4368 >> >> A video of the activity FollowMe Butia: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nnc9Rn9GbY >> >> Regards! >> >> Alan _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
