I admit this kind of (very) late, but here is a project idea that I would love to mentor:
Depending on your coding skills you could write a small activity to abstract the process of writing simple network applications that involve various hardware parts of the laptop (sound card, camera, microphone, network card). This activity would allow children to synthesize simple network programs like "when my laptop hears a sound, send an email to my friend X", "if you receive a message (packet) from this friend, take a picture and send it to my other friend Y".... For example a child may "write" small program using your activity to detect a sound and when it does, it will take a picture and send it somewhere over email (a nifty little monitoring system). Children should be able to put together simple programs like that in "a la etoys", by drag-n-drop of icons on screen and setting their properties, making loops and so on. Any takers? Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
