> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:43:31 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugarized binaries? was Re: users doing python in XOs > > 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. An example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HRbDLO7LM One button to up, one to down... Programmed in TurtleBlocks + Plugin Lego NxT
> > 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
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