Re: [sugar] project idea - any takers?
Pol, At Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:52:42 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: 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. Yeah, if the idea is a la etoys, just add tiles to (for example) existing Email client in Squeak/Etoys so that the kids can set address, content, subject, etc. and send emal. For sound and stuff, it is almost there. That would be a practical project as a SoC. What I hoped was that the Sugar Activities are objects; I mean that to an Activity you can send the (DBus) messages and the object does something (a la AppleScript but the communication is via DBus), and the kids can make mix different Activities to make his own (the user experience would resemble Etoys but Sugar Acitivities and Sugar commands.) That would help better separation of Activities (as they live in different address space), and the messages could be audited so security implication could be addressed. -- Yoshiki ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
[sugar] project idea - any takers?
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 Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] project idea - any takers?
Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: 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? We have done similar things with Scratch/Squeak... I believe E-Toys might help you do that kind of thing more easily as the framework is already there. regards, Kim -- Operating Systems, Services and Operations Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
