Summer of Code/2014: Difference between revisions

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;Brief explanation: In conjunction with the Assitive Interface project, the goal of this project is to provide a physical sensor interface to the Sugar robots suite ([http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4434 Turtle Bots]) for people with limited motor control.

;Expected results: We have access to a target population of children with special needs that would love to work with robotics. We expect an adaption of the Turtle Bots (Turtle Blocks) interface to support programming through a simple pointing device to be deployed with this population and to solicit feedback on the intervention.

;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Python programming.

;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Python programming

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!valign=top | || valign=top |GST-1.0|| valign=top |Walter Bender ||align=left valign=top|

;Brief explanation: We ported Sugar to GTK-3 several years ago. However, we have yet to completely deprecate our GTK-2 branch because there are still a number of core activities that have not been ported to GTK-3, e.g., Turtle Blocks, Measure, and Record. The reason that these activities have not been ported is because of some dependencies on GST-0.10. Specifically, the code associated with accessing raw data streams from audio devices that are then used to feed these activities. This project is to remove the GST-0.10 dependencies and replace them with GST-1.0 libraries. While seemingly trivial, is quite challenging since the equivalent libraries do not exist in GST-1.0. It will require writing some new GST sinks and providing introspection support in Python.

;Expected results: Elimination of all GST-0.10 code from Sugar activities; deprecation of the Gtk-2 branch

;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in C and Python programming, GTK3, and GST 1.0

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 ;Brief explanation: In conjunction with the Assitive Interface project, the goal of this project is to provide a physical sensor interface to the Sugar robots suite ([http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4434 Turtle Bots]) for people with limited motor control.
 ;Expected results: We have access to a target population of children with special needs that would love to work with robotics. We expect an adaption of the Turtle Bots (Turtle Blocks) interface to support programming through a simple pointing device to be deployed with this population and to solicit feedback on the intervention.
-;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Python programming.
+;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in Python programming
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+!valign=top | || valign=top |GST-1.0|| valign=top |Walter Bender ||align=left valign=top|
+;Brief explanation: We ported Sugar to GTK-3 several years ago. However, we have yet to completely deprecate our GTK-2 branch because there are still a number of core activities that have not been ported to GTK-3, e.g., Turtle Blocks, Measure, and Record. The reason that these activities have not been ported is because of some dependencies on GST-0.10. Specifically, the code associated with accessing raw data streams from audio devices that are then used to feed these activities. This project is to remove the GST-0.10 dependencies and replace them with GST-1.0 libraries. While seemingly trivial, is quite challenging since the equivalent libraries do not exist in GST-1.0. It will require writing some new GST sinks and providing introspection support in Python.
+;Expected results: Elimination of all GST-0.10 code from Sugar activities; deprecation of the Gtk-2 branch
+;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in C and Python programming, GTK3, and GST 1.0
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