What would be really nice is a compact document that I could include in the Measure activity itself...
-walter On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > I thought it would be a good idea to take a few minutes out to recap what we > did in the Sensor Workshop on the first day of Sugar Camp in San Francisco. > It was a good way for the non-programmers at the SF Community Summit to have > a reason to stay over for Sugar Camp and have a chance to relax, visit, and > get to know each other a little better while learning more about things that > you can do with XOs. > > > We had about a dozen folks interested in making sensors so we pushed tables > together so we could work collaboratively. Everyone had a bag of parts and > materials to make 3 types of sensors: a light sensor, a temperature sensor, > that needs to draw power from the XO via a usb cable, and a generic sensor > cable with alligator clips that can be used for a variety of things. > > > We began with the light sensor, and by lunch time almost everyone had a > working model and was testing it with the Measure Activity on their XOs. We > tried a variety of solutions for putting them together, and, in a few days, > I'll put some of them on one of the wikis along with parts lists, sources > for parts, and basic instructions. If you have more photos of our project... > send them to me in an email and I'll add them to the wiki. > > > To solder or not to solder was the big question of the day. Ed Bigenho was > able to help some of the folks learn to solder their parts together. Others > decided to just rely on electrical tape. We covered the connections with > heat-shrink tubing that we "shrank" with a small travel hair dryer. > > > It was a noisy fun group… and we all accomplished something… a perfect > example of project based, collaborative learning in action! > > > After lunch we tackled the temperature sensor, which is a much more complex > project. We had two different, conflicting, sets of instructions… one from > the wiki and one from the XO Explosion kit Mike Lee brought. Finally, we > found a third one, in Spanish, by Plan Ceibal, also on the wiki. It was a > lot easier to understand and the photos were very clear. Someone needs to > translate this one. We did get some reaction from the sensor, but it > obviously wasn't working right. This one needs more exploration! > > > We didn't get to the generic sensor (out of time), but it is pretty easy and > straightforward so anyone who made a light sensor should be able to make the > generic as well. > > > In the next week or two I will put a list of parts and instructions for all > three sensors on either the OLPC wiki or the Sugar Labs wiki with links from > one to the other. I'll send a link when it is done, and I invite everyone > who joined in the activity (or didn't but has worked with sensors before) to > contribute to the discussion there. > > > If you were part of this fun group and have a little time to spare, you > might play around with the temperature sensor and see if you can make it > work. Also, try the generic with some of the copper wire in your kit and an > ungalvanized nail to make a lemon battery. We will have a discussion place > on the wiki where you can report your activities and how they worked… or > didn't (failures are important too if they are documented so we can learn > from them). > > > What's up for next year's Sugar Camp? Several ideas were tossed around. If > you have any suggestions for fun, preferably hands-on, things we can try > with the XOs, speak up! > > > Caryl > > Links to Photos: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/8114170193/in/set-72157631841452526/ > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/8114329641/in/set-72157631841452526/ > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep