Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

On 10 March 2011 15:22, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:06:10PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> I forgot to mention another thing - this is for XO-1.1s (XO-1s with an >> XO-1.5 style trackpad). > > We don't use the term XO-1.1, sorry.  Please don't introduce it. Noted. I'm

Re: XO-1.1 differences

On 10 March 2011 15:15, Jon Nettleton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > wrote: >> A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm >> not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call >> XO-1s with XO-1.5 style capacitive trackpads

Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:06:10PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > We find this to be a bit hit-and-miss - sometimes the prompt shows and > sometimes it doesn't. I normally turn on the XO while either holding > down the Esc key or tapping it repeatedly. Is there something more > reliable? I am t

Re: XO-1.1 differences

sridhar wrote: > A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm > not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call > XO-1s with XO-1.5 style capacitive trackpads. i'm afraid we just know them as CL1 (old trackpad) and CL1A (new trackpad) machines (becaus

Re: XO-1.1 differences

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm > not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call > XO-1s with XO-1.5 style capacitive trackpads. > > I am going to that community in a couple of wee

XO-1.1 differences

A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call XO-1s with XO-1.5 style capacitive trackpads. I am going to that community in a couple of weeks to upgrade them to the latest OS build. I only have the standard

Re: Determining developer lock status

On 10 March 2011 14:49, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 09 2011, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> What's the simplest way for a novice to tell if their XO is developer locked? > > Push escape while the startup sound is playing.  If you get an ok prompt, > your XO is not developer locked.  If y

Re: Determining developer lock status

Hi, On Wed, Mar 09 2011, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > What's the simplest way for a novice to tell if their XO is developer locked? Push escape while the startup sound is playing. If you get an ok prompt, your XO is not developer locked. If you don't, it is. -- Chris Ball

Determining developer lock status

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Lego WeDo + TurtleArt - Screenshot & Code!

Hi All! I'm writing with good news. I successfully have integrated the Lego WeDo with TurtleArt. Here's a screenshot: http://itdnhr.com/static/WeDoScreen.png The code needed can be found in my git repo at https://github.com/itdaniher/WeDoMore/

Re: Memory replacement

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:31:24AM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: > OK, the little 8GiB microSD card inserted into an SD adapter, inserted > into the external SD slot, passed the dir test that James said to > perform at OFW. Didnt complain. Good. You must test again if you change cards, by the way.

Re: Memory replacement

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:15:12PM -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > But I think the .zd files re-write the WHOLE SD card (including its > partition table). If that is true, then the person replacing the SD > card has no control over where the partitions get placed -- only the > person who created t

Re: Memory replacement

> Also make sure that the partition > is aligned to 4 MB, otherwise you waste half the performance > and expected life. I do this for every SD card onto which I myself write the partition table. But I think the .zd files re-write the WHOLE SD card (including its partition table). If that is true

Re: Memory replacement

On Wednesday 09 March 2011 17:31:24 Kevin Gordon wrote: > go, no-go, spend the extra pennies and get a Class 4/6/8/10 Note that Class 8 does not exist (except fakes) and class 10 is usually not faster than class 6 if you run ext3 on it. Also, a Sandisk card is usually faster than a card from most

Re: Memory replacement

kevin wrote: > Mikus and James and the gang: > > OK, the little 8GiB microSD card inserted into an SD adapter, inserted into > the external SD slot, passed the dir test that James said to perform at > OFW. Didnt complain. However, it is a "Class 2" Sandisk card, so it might > not really be

Re: Memory replacement

> advice please: go, no-go, > spend the extra pennies and get a Class 4/6/8/10 Go. I was interested in having a "higher-performing" XO-1.5 -- so the card I bought back then was a class 6. It is likely the micro-SD card you have now is a class 2 -- so your new card (Sandisk has good reputation f

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

Hi Ian! great to have you around! I am interested in your work with WeDo, both the python plugin, and the TA integration. For the NXT integration, the parts are 1 - an rpm that has the udev rules 2 - an rpm with nxt_python (python library, some utilities) 3 - a TA plugin In your case, we'll pro

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

Hey All, I'm the previously mentioned Olin student working on TA / WeDo integration. Right now, I have a full-function python driver for the WeDo and an early draft for a Turtle Art plugin. I will be releasing a public beta via my github page, https://github.com/itdaniher/WeDoMore, on Mar18. Sho

Re: Memory replacement

Mikus and James and the gang: OK, the little 8GiB microSD card inserted into an SD adapter, inserted into the external SD slot, passed the dir test that James said to perform at OFW. Didnt complain. However, it is a "Class 2" Sandisk card, so it might not really be the right way to go. Before I

Re: os-builder: could we roll a 1.3.1?

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Ho-hum. Not convinced. Here's why: Nag nag. Would you consider 1.3.1? I've re-reviewed the patches. Some more reasons that a potential 1.3.1 is safe to recommend: - Many changes are in oats_cfg and custom_scripts, which are not used for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

Walter, That's great. Thanks. Gerald On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito > wrote: > > Emiliano, > > Thanks > > I was working with Scratch yesterday with some students and noticed that > > they have a new category of Examples t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > FYI, there is also an Olin student working on a WeDo plugin for Turtle Art. Fantastic. Can you get her/him in touch w the list or at least with Emiliano and me? m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OL

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: > Emiliano, > Thanks. > I was working with Scratch yesterday with some students and noticed that > they have a new category of Examples that pertains to WeDo. > Can't wait to play! > Gerald FYI, there is also an Olin student working on a We

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

Emiliano, Thanks. I was working with Scratch yesterday with some students and noticed that they have a new category of Examples that pertains to WeDo. Can't wait to play! Gerald On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Emiliano Pastorino < epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote: > Gerald, > > I haven't wo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

Gerald, I haven't worked with WeDo, but it seems to be supported in Scracht: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/WeDo On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: > Martin, > > Thanks. This is all really exciting. > I am really looking forward to connecting the XOs to probes, robots, etc. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

Martin, Thanks. This is all really exciting. I am really looking forward to connecting the XOs to probes, robots, etc. so that the students can experience manipulating physical and digital objects. Gerald On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:02 AM, D

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito wrote: > I am very interested in this functionality and that of using WeDo Robots. > Would this be available for the XOs? Both versions or only the XO 1.5? > How would that work? It's a headline feature for 11.2.0 which is planned to be XO-1 and X

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: > Actually, I've realized that we have the new kit: > http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10174 > The difference is that it includes a flex sensor. Thanks for the info. I'll try get one. m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  mar...@laptop.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Emiliano Pastorino wrote: >> Emiliano has Arduino + TA working, I think. Needs to be reworked as a >> plugin in the new TA plugins model (which seems excellent). > > Yes, it's working. We don't know if we're going to use them, but I plan to > create > a plugin anywa

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

I am very interested in this functionality and that of using WeDo Robots. Would this be available for the XOs? Both versions or only the XO 1.5? How would that work? Thanks. Gerald On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Emiliano Pastorino < epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote: > Emiliano has Arduino

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

Actually, I've realized that we have the new kit: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10174 The difference is that it includes a flex sensor. On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Emiliano Pastorino < epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote: > Emiliano has Arduino + TA working, I think. Needs to be reworke

Re: [Sugar-devel] Interesting USB-pluggable robots, controller boards, and sensors

> > Emiliano has Arduino + TA working, I think. Needs to be reworked as a > plugin in the new TA plugins model (which seems excellent). Yes, it's working. We don't know if we're going to use them, but I plan to create a plugin anyway. On the Uy/Ceibal side, I really want to know which Arduino th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion about feature in "sin-dientes" activity

2011/3/9 Yader Velásquez > My problem is: How to allow only the teachers to customize the list words, > and deny this feature to the regulars students? > I use the FileChooserWidget for select a file with the new list, but is not > a good idea that a child can do it. > > I don't understand why th