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2. Speaking of USB IO devices, [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/01/arduino-and-xo-laptop.html Tony Forster is having fun] with the [http://www.freetronics.com/pages/leostick-quickstart-guide Freetronics Leostick], an Arduino "on a stick". It looks really cute. I haven't been able to find a price for it anywhere on the Freetronics website, but it looks quite promising. [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/01/wedo-plugin-for-turtle-art.html Tony] also pulled together a [[File:Wedo_plugin.tar.gz|WeDo plugin]] for Turtle Art into shape (based on the work of [https://github.com/itdaniher/WeDoMore/tree/master/TurtleArt Ian Daniher]).

2. Speaking of USB IO devices, [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/01/arduino-and-xo-laptop.html Tony Forster is having fun] with the [http://www.freetronics.com/pages/leostick-quickstart-guide Freetronics Leostick], an Arduino "on a stick". It looks really cute. I haven't been able to find a price for it anywhere on the Freetronics website, but it looks quite promising. [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/01/wedo-plugin-for-turtle-art.html Tony] also pulled together a [[File:Wedo_plugin.tar.gz|WeDo plugin]] for Turtle Art into shape (based on the work of [https://github.com/itdaniher/WeDoMore/tree/master/TurtleArt Ian Daniher]).

3. Speaking of Turtle Art plugins, I have begun working on a new plugin to explore nutrition. The idea is to have a variety of food "blocks", each representing a polynomial description of their nutritional value. Numerical value blocks will accumulate factors such as calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, fiber, salt, vitamin A, vitamin C, saturated fats, cholestoral, et al. The blocks can then be used to calculate the various nutritional value of a recipe or diet. Eventually, I'd like to add various operations such as the impact of cooking. Stay tuned.

3. Speaking of Turtle Art plugins, I have begun working on a new plugin to explore nutrition. The idea is to have a variety of food "blocks", each representing a polynomial description of their nutritional value. Numerical value blocks will accumulate factors such as calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, fiber, salt, vitamin A, vitamin C, saturated fats, cholesterol, et al. The blocks can then be used to calculate the various nutritional value of a recipe or diet. Eventually, I'd like to add various operations such as the impact of cooking. Stay tuned.

4. Along with Pacita Pena and Martin Oesterreich, the first release version of the [http://git.sugarlabs.org/icanread I Can Read activity] is just about ready. Keep an eye out on activities.sugarlabs.org.

4. Along with Pacita Pena and Martin Oesterreich, the first release version of the [http://git.sugarlabs.org/icanread I Can Read activity] is just about ready. Keep an eye out on activities.sugarlabs.org.