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

2011-03-09 Thread Tabitha Roder
2011/3/9 Yader Velásquez yajo...@gmail.com 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

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 they

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 reworked

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] 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 epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy 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

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 epastor...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy 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 --  

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 gerald.ard...@gmail.com 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

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 martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed,

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 gerald.ard...@gmail.comwrote: Martin, Thanks. This is all really exciting. I am really looking forward to connecting the XOs to

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 worked

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 gerald.ard...@gmail.com 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

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 walter.ben...@gmail.com 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 --

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 walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Emiliano, Thanks I was working with Scratch yesterday with some students and noticed that

Re: os-builder: could we roll a 1.3.1?

2011-03-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Ho-hum. Not convinced. Here's why: Nag nag. Would you consider 1.3.1? I've re-reviewed the patches. Some more reasons that a potential 1.3.1 is safe to recommend: - Many changes are in oats_cfg and

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-09 Thread Kevin Gordon
Mikus and James and the gang: OK, the little 8GiB microSD card inserted into an SD adapter, inserted into the external SD slot, passed the dir test that James said to perform at OFW. Didnt complain. However, it is a Class 2 Sandisk card, so it might not really be the right way to go. Before I

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.

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

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
advice please: go, no-go, spend the extra pennies and get a Class 4/6/8/10 Go. I was interested in having a higher-performing XO-1.5 -- so the card I bought back then was a class 6. It is likely the micro-SD card you have now is a class 2 -- so your new card (Sandisk has good reputation for

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-09 Thread Paul Fox
kevin wrote: Mikus and James and the gang: OK, the little 8GiB microSD card inserted into an SD adapter, inserted into the external SD slot, passed the dir test that James said to perform at OFW. Didnt complain. However, it is a Class 2 Sandisk card, so it might not really be the

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-09 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 17:31:24 Kevin Gordon wrote: go, no-go, spend the extra pennies and get a Class 4/6/8/10 Note that Class 8 does not exist (except fakes) and class 10 is usually not faster than class 6 if you run ext3 on it. Also, a Sandisk card is usually faster than a card from most

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Also make sure that the partition is aligned to 4 MB, otherwise you waste half the performance and expected life. I do this for every SD card onto which I myself write the partition table. But I think the .zd files re-write the WHOLE SD card (including its partition table). If that is true,

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-09 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:15:12PM -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: But I think the .zd files re-write the WHOLE SD card (including its partition table). If that is true, then the person replacing the SD card has no control over where the partitions get placed -- only the person who created the

Re: Memory replacement

2011-03-09 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:31:24AM -0500, Kevin Gordon wrote: OK, the little 8GiB microSD card inserted into an SD adapter, inserted into the external SD slot, passed the dir test that James said to perform at OFW. Didnt complain. Good. You must test again if you change cards, by the way.

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

Determining developer lock status

2011-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
What's the simplest way for a novice to tell if their XO is developer locked? Thanks ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Determining developer lock status

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Mar 09 2011, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: What's the simplest way for a novice to tell if their XO is developer locked? Push escape while the startup sound is playing. If you get an ok prompt, your XO is not developer locked. If you don't, it is. -- Chris Ball c...@laptop.org

Re: Determining developer lock status

2011-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 March 2011 14:49, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 09 2011, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: What's the simplest way for a novice to tell if their XO is developer locked? Push escape while the startup sound is playing.  If you get an ok prompt, your XO is not developer

XO-1.1 differences

2011-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call XO-1s with XO-1.5 style capacitive trackpads. I am going to that community in a couple of weeks to upgrade them to the latest OS build. I only have the standard

Re: XO-1.1 differences

2011-03-09 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call XO-1s with XO-1.5 style capacitive trackpads. I am going to that community

Re: XO-1.1 differences

2011-03-09 Thread Paul Fox
sridhar wrote: A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call XO-1s with XO-1.5 style capacitive trackpads. i'm afraid we just know them as CL1 (old trackpad) and CL1A (new trackpad) machines (because

Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

2011-03-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:06:10PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: We find this to be a bit hit-and-miss - sometimes the prompt shows and sometimes it doesn't. I normally turn on the XO while either holding down the Esc key or tapping it repeatedly. Is there something more reliable? I am

Re: XO-1.1 differences

2011-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 March 2011 15:15, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: A year ago, we deployed about 200 XO-1.1 machines in a community. I'm not sure if that version number is official, but it's what we call XO-1s

Re: [OLPC-AU] Determining developer lock status

2011-03-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 March 2011 15:22, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:06:10PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I forgot to mention another thing - this is for XO-1.1s (XO-1s with an XO-1.5 style trackpad). We don't use the term XO-1.1, sorry.  Please don't introduce it.