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