Thank you Steve, that's exactly the main idea behind the butiá project: extend the actuation and sensorial capabilities of the XO and reuse the software and hardware present in it in order to transform the XO in a mobile low cost robot. And that's one of the important differences with a commercial kit like lego. Yesterday we could put our hands in the XO 1.75, that has more sensors like the accelerometer and the light sensor and also I think a magnetic compass ;) So we are very motivated with 1.75 version and the future posibilities of the butia robot. Regards from Uruguay
-- /\ndrés On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Steve Thomas <sthom...@gosargon.com> wrote: > This is a great use of the XO. So for comparison, how much would it cost > for an arduino, with video camera, color display, speakers, speech to text > capabilites, wireless internet? > > Plus you get programming environments like Scratch, Etoys and Turtle Art. > > My guess an XO would win and it does so much more!!! > Stephen > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Andres Aguirre <aguir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you Kevin! >> There are some more pics in flickr: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/butiarobot/sets/ >> and some videos in http://www.youtube.com/proyectobutia >> cheers >> >> -- >> /\ndrés >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Kevin Mark <kevin.m...@verizon.net> >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:24:50PM -0300, Andres Aguirre wrote: >> >> Hi, I want to share with you what we was doing the last week here in >> >> Uruguay: >> >> >> >> http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Review >> > Hi Andres, >> > this looks like more excellant work about the butiabot. I was showing >> > photos of >> > the bot at the Maker Faire NYC 2011 booth to all the kids and parents as >> > your >> > project is the one that shows how the kids are learning about robotics, >> > programming and computational thinking. And also how people can derive >> > new >> > software and new educational uses with an 'open' approach in a learning >> > environment. >> > >> > -- >> > | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com......| >> > | : :' : The Universal OS....| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| >> > | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| >> > |___`-____Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._________| >> > >> > The PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY is CRYING for an END to BURT REYNOLDS movies!! >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
