I took the opportunity to present at our local Maker Faire (inspired by O'Reilly's Make Magazine -- http://makezine.com ) as motivation to getting a working prototype of a SchoolTool appliance working with SMS.
My spiel from the show is available in video form here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/schooltool_connects_schools.html Background on the hardware is here: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2010/06/schooltoolbox-explained.html The phone is a Nokia 6021, which is an old model well supported on Linux. In terms of the SMS support, there is nothing too sophisticated going on. Just a simple Python script written with PyGSM that polls the phone for new messages, looks for a string ("enrol") asking for total student enrollment. If it finds it, it asks the local SchoolTool using a simple http request, and sends back the result. Simple, but it does actually work as a demo. --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
