I have got a (ARDX) kit from www.oomlout.com and it comes with quite a bunch of useful things.
Bought it at FOSDEM a year ago or so. Philippe 2012/4/21 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > 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 > > > -- Philippe Back "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: [email protected]| Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: http://philippeback.be High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 1301 Bierges
