Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Robot runs on MSP430 + OLPC XO - QA and updated bundle request

2012-11-25 Thread Dr. Gerald Ardito
Yama, This is really great. And thanks for updating the wiki (sorry about the cold, though). Can you provide specifics on the hardware/frame for the robot? Thanks. Gerald On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: Bouncy robot powered by

Re: [IAEP] Introduction: teacher interested in SOAS

2012-11-25 Thread John Landis
Kevin Pato, Thanks so much for the heads-up around this issue. These are definitely issues I was thinking about. I've spoken to our after-school coordinator about getting together a small group to trial this with, and she is pretty excited about the idea. 1. What size of USB will you use?

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-25

2012-11-25 Thread Walter Bender
== Sugar Digest == 1. Google Code-In [1] begins tomorrow. It is not too late to sign up as a mentor [2] and to recruit students to participate [3]. While many of the tasks [4] involve programming, there are also documentation, design, and research tasks. This is a great opportunity for Sugar Labs

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-25

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Francis
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:43:35 -0500 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Daniel Narvaez has made a number of improvements to sugar-build [5], which has by-and-large replaced sugar-jhbuild as the preferred development environment for Fedora and Ubuntu. Congratulations to Daniel

[IAEP] Notice to GCI mentors

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear GCI mentors for Sugar Labs, First, thank you for volunteering your time and effort to help the GCI participants to help Sugar Labs and our users. The GCI website will open to student sign-up shortly, so we can expect to begin seeing requests from students to take on tasks. The purpose of

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Robot runs on MSP430 + OLPC XO - QA and updated bundle request

2012-11-25 Thread Yama Ploskonka
Thank you for the interest, Gerald. I have uploaded a circuit diagram, and will be working on explaining what's what there BTW, I did the drawing on an XO 1, using Inkscape in Gnome. Slower than the quad core, but works! http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Bouncy_Robot_Linux_code let's