Sorry, this damn gmail hotkeys sent the mail before I finished writing it. Let me try again :P
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected] > wrote: > 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. > Hi Stef, > I don't know what are your needs but I'll tell you what we have here. For the arduino versions we have an Arduino UNO, a couple of Arduino Duemilanove with ATmega328, and an Arduino MEGA 2560. We use mostly the first two. Then we also have an Electronic Brick Starter Kit ( http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/electronic-brick-starter-kit-p-506.html) that provides a couple of sensors and a really nice interface to plug/unplug components. And finally, we also have a couple of servos and some dc motors. Keep in mind we only use that to test stuff, we almost never build something useful out of it but it should be enough to let you started. :) Cheers, Richo > > 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 > >> > >
