Re: [IAEP] DesignBlocks
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Bryant Patten i...@ncose.org wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Anyone knows similar projects ? Hi Bryant Has anyone mentioned MiniBloq? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/791396812/minibloq-graphical-programming-environment-for-ard?ref=live - Bryant Thanks for the pointer, I've seen minibloq's site and it's sources are not published yet, it seems that is developed on C/C++, that would make it somewhat difficult to modify for children. besides that is has some nice ideas that we can implement on a future TA-Arduino plugin. * Bryant Patten The National Center for Open Source and Education www.ncose.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] DesignBlocks
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Rafael Ortiz raf...@activitycentral.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: On a somewhat related note: Microsoft Research introduced TouchStudio for Windows Phone 7 (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchstudio/default.aspx) to allow development right on the phones the other day. The video ( http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Peli/TouchStudio-Script-Your-Phone-on-Your-Phone-Reloaded ) is well worth a look in my opinion. Another similar effort is the Catdroid project (http://code.google.com/p/catroid/) which is being developed at Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria - and currently sponsored via GSoC - and aims to be an on-device graphical programming language for Android devices that is inspired by the Scratch. While it's early days for both projects I think that anyone working on efforts in this area should keep an eye on them. Lessons learned from these (touchscreen) on-device environments could be particularly useful looking towards the XO-3 and other tablets. Cheers, Christoph Am 06.06.2011 20:13, schrieb ana.cichero: There is a pretty group of users for Processing here in Montevideo! I think the mailing list and the group is still active, some of them could get envolved. mnav-arte-cod...@googlegroups.com mailto:mnav-arte-cod...@googlegroups.com ( I have their addresses in other case ) It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing (which is Java-based) to Sugar. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep More info about DesignBlocks actual state http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evhan55/designblocks-visual-programming-for-artists/posts/84640 And also I found an interesting way to control arduino via JS, (Unfortunately it also needs flash). http://www.schillmania.com/projects/arduino-js/ Anyone knows similar projects ? Still the Java based arduino IDE is much more powerful. cheers. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep Butia is a nice way to control Arduino (from Turtle Art). No flash required... just Python. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] DesignBlocks
Agree that processing makes more sense. Large established community. Also speaks to the Kinect fairly easily though I don't know if we'll be seeing that happen :-) On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:37 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing (which is Java-based) to Sugar. which might then make it easy to get the Arduino IDE into Sugar (which I think is Processing) Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] DesignBlocks
There are a version of Processing implemented in Javascript. Also this project have a nicer UI :) Gonzalo On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 23:45 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: A replacement for Scratch written in JavaScript / ActionScript: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evhan55/designblocks-visual-programming-for-artists Looks promising, and the author is in Cambridge MA, where I live. Does anyone know her? No, but she's a former member of the Scratch team at the Media Lab. JavaScript is a bit misleading; her software is written in flash. indeed, but the KickStarter entry also reads: However, in order for DesignBlocks to become more robust and complete, it needs more features, plenty of bug fixes and it needs to be ported to JavaScript/HTML5 (for mobile access). This summer, I'd like to work on DesignBlocks to get it to a suitable state for widespread testing. Doesn't it sound reasonable? I'd like to get in contact with Evelyn Eastmond to ask how she's planning to make it happen, and if she'd like to work with the Sugar community to package DesignBlocks as an activity. -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing (which is Java-based) to Sugar. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
