Re: cpia driver for microscope: any success?
On 23 April 2011 00:08, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > On Tuesday 19 Apr 2011 12:03:38 am Cherry Withers wrote: >> I had much success with the Veho 004, but at now $99 a piece I can't afford >> to buy more of them for my trip to the Philippines this June. > This is actually good because it serves as a warning sign of going off-track > ;-). Lasting learning outcomes come out of using locally available materials > for experiments - like fashioning a magnifier by filling a discarded tungsten > lamp with clear water or making one out of clean sheet of plastic etc. > > How about taking a couple of lenses or jeweller's eyepieces and then using > digicam or cameraphone (with macro feature)? The combo is harder to get > working but such hard fun should be part of learning. That's basically the approach described at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Microscope#Overview_-_The_.241_video_microscope Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: 11.2.0 development build 17 released
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 29 April 2011 17:16, Daniel Drake wrote: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.2.0 >> >> http://build.laptop.org/11.2.0/os17 > > Sam pointed out that something's up with Fedora's update system and > this build doesn't include the newest sugar that we'd hoped for. > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-0.92.1-2.fc14,sugar-base-0.92.0-1.fc14,sugar-artwork-0.92.0-1.fc14 > > Probably a good idea to wait a day or 2 until the next build, which > will fix this. These are now in updates-testing. Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
