[Sugar-devel] Lego WeDo + TurtleArt - Screenshot & Code!

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Daniher
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/

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Paths-5

2011-03-09 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4409 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27278/paths-5.xo Release notes: * Added Spanish strings * Fixed bug with block highlighting Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.

[Sugar-devel] FYI: cocosCairo for PyGTK/PyCairo

2011-03-09 Thread Walter Bender
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Flores Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:05 PM Subject: cocosCairo for PyGTK/PyCairo To: walter.ben...@gmail.com Hi Walter, We met briefly early last year through Barry Vercoe, at which time I showed you a UI framework called cocosCairo that I was

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Paths-4

2011-03-09 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4409 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27277/paths-4.xo Release notes: * play with robot * closed paths are highlighted * uses XO colors Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.suga

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

2011-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
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

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Daniher
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

[Sugar-devel] New version of Wikipedia activities

2011-03-09 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I have uploaded version 25 of Wikipedia and Wikipedia EN activities to aslo. Are in experimental state, testing is welcomed. More changes are in the build process, but there are small fixes too. Links: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4401/ http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/su

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Maze-9

2011-03-09 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4071 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.92 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27273/maze-9.xo Release notes: Adding new toolbar, pep8 fixes for olpcgaqmes Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___

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

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
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

2011-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
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

2011-03-09 Thread Walter Bender
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] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread David Farning
> -Original Message- > From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel- > boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Chris Leonard > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:31 AM > To: Walter Bender > Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; Aleksey Lim > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel]

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

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
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] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Chris Leonard > wrote: > > I don't think it is necessarily essential to report current status on > every > > language, that is tracked by the hosting L10n envirnment. I was > suggesting > > something much simp

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

2011-03-09 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
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] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: > I don't think it is necessarily essential to report current status on every > language, that is tracked by the hosting L10n envirnment.  I was suggesting > something much simpler. > > Yes/No on POT generated and hosted somewhere (or other L10n

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

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
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] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Leonard
I don't think it is necessarily essential to report current status on every language, that is tracked by the hosting L10n envirnment. I was suggesting something much simpler. Yes/No on POT generated and hosted somewhere (or other L10n equivalent). A link to where L10n on the Activity is performe

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

2011-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
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

2011-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
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

2011-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
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] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:40:44AM -0500, Chris Leonard wrote: > It would be highly desirable for ASLO to reflect the i18n status of an > Activity, ideally with a link to where the L10n of that activity is hosted > (it doesn't have to be translate.sugarlabs.org). Far too many of the > Activities h

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

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
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] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 04:37:24AM -0600, David Farning wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: tabitha.m...@gmail.com [mailto:tabitha.m...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > > Tabitha Roder > > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:42 AM > > To: David Farning > > Cc: Aleksey Lim; sugar-devel@lists.suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Leonard
It would be highly desirable for ASLO to reflect the i18n status of an Activity, ideally with a link to where the L10n of that activity is hosted (it doesn't have to be translate.sugarlabs.org). Far too many of the Activities hosted in ASLO have not been internationalized / localized and believe t

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

2011-03-09 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
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

2011-03-09 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
> > 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] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread David Farning
> -Original Message- > From: tabitha.m...@gmail.com [mailto:tabitha.m...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Tabitha Roder > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 3:42 AM > To: David Farning > Cc: Aleksey Lim; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Tech Report > > On 13 Februa

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Tabitha Roder
On 13 February 2011 16:31, David Farning wrote: > On the content side, the New Zealand testers would be perfect fit for > editors. Every weekend they could go through the queue of uploaded > activities for the week and approve the one without regressions. > > There would be a strong incentive for

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

2011-03-09 Thread Tabitha Roder
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Tech Report

2011-03-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 01:21:10AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > This is activities.sugarlabs.org report to cover only technical > ASLO aspects. > > == Roadmap == > > The upstream is in process of switching to new AMO code base, django > based (python based framework). We need to do the same. So, t