On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Yama Ploskonka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, thanks > > Texas Instrument's MSP430 Launchpad. at $4.30 including shipping, it's > probably the most affordable, bang-for-the-buck MCU/experimentation board > combo ever. Etc., no need to go into a full blown advertisement :-) > > I have managed, with a few coughs and starts, to run it in several > iterations of OLPC OS, using plain old XO-1 units. > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_MSP430_Install (due for some > code revision) > > The /sudo/ problem we are facing is specific to Uruguay, where their > benevolent administrators have blocked several features on the XOs OS > > I don't do Windows, thank you very much. (though UY is painting itself in > the corner on that one also, by embracing NXT)
FWIW, there is an NXT plugin for Turtle Art. No need to use Windows. > > Personally, I am more for the command line. > My reasoning is that those, very few, able to take full benefit of working > with microcontrollers are also the ones who can grock command line no > problem, sort of a correlation between their personal attributes and > potentials. More importantly, text based coding is Real World, and > definitely not for everybody. > I see that working for/with them is important, as it is those few the ones > who might have the biggest individual impact in nation building, while their > special and greater needs dismissed and potential for brilliance often lost > in the name of Procrustean egalitarianism (standard Yamarant). > > Still, I am enormously impressed by things like this color follower, that > uses the XO camera and processes data in Tortugarte, then directs the > motors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nnc9Rn9GbY > > I see there is room for tile-based stuff, though for now there are deeper > issues I have not yet solved... > > Thank you! > > > > > > On 12/03/2012 02:35 PM, David Corking wrote: >> >> Yama: Which model of microcontroller will you use? Which >> programmer/connector will you use? >> >> Yes, I think your mspdebug experience might be a 'user' and 'group' >> thing on the USB device, but it might be a kernel driver, which >> normally needs root access. >> >> If you use Windows on your netbooks one nice way to install the GNU >> toolchain to compile C programs is Red Hat's cygwin project: >> http://cygwin.com/ >> >> David >> >> p.s. Have you seen Physical Etoys? It is free tile scripting for >> microcontrollers, though I don't think an XO bundle has been made. Low >> ceiling, but interesting. >> http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/ >> Also Squeakbot and PhidgetLab >> http://www.planete-sciences.org/robot/boiteabots/ >> http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/projects/phidgetlab/index.html >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
