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| + | [[Category:2010 GSoC applications]] |
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| ====About you==== | | ====About you==== |
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| * '''Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. '''If not, why''' '''do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?''' | | * '''Have you participated in an open-source project before? If so, please send us URLs to your profile pages for those projects, or some other demonstration of the work that you have done in open-source. '''If not, why''' '''do you want to work on an open-source project this summer?''' |
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− | Yes I've participated in quite a few open-source projects. | + | Yes I've participated in quite a few open-source projects, including sugar, olpc, debian and ubuntu. |
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| ====About your project==== | | ====About your project==== |
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| * '''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?''' | | * '''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?''' |
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− | Turtle Art 0.84 already has the capacity to communicate lively by serial with an Arduino (an open hardware development board). This feature most be ported to the 0.88 version, and also add the possibility to download the code generated in blocks to the Arduino board, that is the key component to a fully autonomous system. | + | Turtle Art 0.84 already has the capacity to communicate lively by serial port with an Arduino (an open hardware development board). This feature most be ported to the 0.88 version, and also add the possibility to download the code generated in blocks to the Arduino board, that is the key component to a fully autonomous system. |
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− | Having an autonomous system frees kids to work with simple vehicles, robotics and automation, without the necessity of have a cable plug to a computer. | + | Having an autonomous system frees kids to work with simple vehicles, robotics and automation, without the necessity of having a cable plug to a computer. |
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| The autonomous systems open doors to real learning explorations on areas of robotics and automation. | | The autonomous systems open doors to real learning explorations on areas of robotics and automation. |
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| ''Second Week'' | | ''Second Week'' |
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− | * Analysis of Turtle art 0.88, integrate previous arduino work with this new version | + | * Analysis of Turtle art 0.88, integrate previous Arduino work with this new version |
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| ''Third Week'' | | ''Third Week'' |
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| * '''Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.''' | | * '''Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.''' |
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− | This project is of great interest to sugar deployment sites and is beginning to have an important part of future plans of education for countries. | + | This project is of great interest to sugar deployment sites and is beginning to have an important part of future plans of education for countries, including plans of meta-recycling of electronic debris. |
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| ====You and the community==== | | ====You and the community==== |
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| If successfully achieved this project would extend sugar's applicability on Schools broadening it's use for learning in hardware development. | | If successfully achieved this project would extend sugar's applicability on Schools broadening it's use for learning in hardware development. |
− | | + | Also in union with curriculum plans would encourage people to solve problems and be aware of environmental problems. |
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