Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Sat, 9/22/12, Caryl Bigenho wrote: From: Caryl Bigenho Subject: Re: [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy? To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t" , "IAEP SugarLabs" Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 1:26 AM Hey Guys...  Don't loose sight of the fact tha

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hey Guys... Don't loose sight of the fact that learning electronics is not necessarily the main goal here. I think that, most of the time, the sensors will be used for measuring things in science experiments... physics, chemistry, even biology and health science. I spent this evening with the

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
Sorry for the intromision.. You can make your own "USB4butia" board and use it to read resistances like inthe audio jack of the XO.Is very inexpensive board. You can make it with a "iron for clothes": http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/USB4buti%C3%A0 The childrens of

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Fri, 9/21/12, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: > From: fors...@ozonline.com.au > Subject: Re: Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy? > To: "Kevin Mark" > Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > Date: Friday, September 21, 2012, 11:22 PM > Kevin wrote > > > What your explanation

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread forster
Kevin wrote > What your explanation makes clear is why people typically pay 3rd parties to > develop educational material with pre-tested sample circuits and included > parts. The average teacher will not have the expertise to just find a sensor, > make a circuit, connect it, use software like

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Fri, 9/21/12, James Cameron wrote: > From: James Cameron > Subject: Re: [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy? > To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT > laptop.org"" > Cc: "IAEP SugarLabs" , "OLPC SoCal" > , "support-g...@laptop.org" > Date: Friday

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread forster
> > PIR Motion Sensor - Easy-to-use motion detector with an analog > > interface. Power it with 5-12VDC, and you'll be alerted of any > > movement. > > Can be connected to the OLPC XO microphone input and the USB socket > for power. See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Tur

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:38:12PM -0700, Kevin Mark wrote: > This is a minor update because I was reading a post[1] on sparkfun. This kit > shows a kit with single examples of various types of sensors. This kit is too > expensive but you can buy the individual parts separately at their site or >

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Fri, 9/21/12, Kevin Mark wrote: From: Kevin Mark Subject: Re: [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy? To: "support-g...@laptop.org" , "IAEP SugarLabs" , "OLPC SoCal" , "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org" Date: Friday, September 21, 2012, 2:

Re: [IAEP] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012

2012-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
Note that we will be hosting SugarCamp++ right after the summit. SugarCamp++ will be Oct 22-24 at the same location. cheers, Sameer On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Registration is now open for the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community > Summit 2012. > > http://www.olpcsf.

[IAEP] OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012

2012-09-21 Thread Sameer Verma
Registration is now open for the upcoming OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2012. http://www.olpcsf.org/node/70 See you there! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/