ricardo I would love to play with ardino. Do you have a suggestion for a useful configuration in terms of board, motors…? Because there are a lot of choices and I do not know what to buy. Stef
On Apr 21, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Ricardo Moran wrote: > Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies), > > I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of > new features: > • First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the > bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. > • We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and > Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external > modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version. > • Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which is > called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools. > • We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the use of > digital devices attached to analog pins. > • We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a variable > across time and save it to a csv file. > • We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your scripts > and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the > computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this > opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users. > • And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a lot more > stable (or so we hope :). > I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from > the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much > better than the last and I encourage you all to try it. > And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be > installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, > which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older > students). So we are *really* excited about this! > > Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical > Etoys 2.0 from our blog: > http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/. > > Cheers, > Richo
