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;Expected results: Elimination of all GST-0.10 code from Sugar activities; deprecation of the Gtk-2 branch
;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
;Knowledge prerequisite: Strong background in C and Python programming, GTK3, and GST 1.0
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!valign=top | || valign=top |Hack a Stuffed Animal|| valign=top |Stephen Thomas||align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation: Many children can not communicate verbally whether due to nonverbal autism or some other factor. While there are many catalogs and websites with adaptive equipment and software but the prices are high. There is a OLPC deployment in Uraguay where a student uses his stuffed animal as an input device for using an XO and Etoys. We would like to build on this to make it easier and lower cost or these children and their parents to communicate and use computers. The software would be free and OpenSource and the hardware to hack a Stuffed Animal could potentially repurpose old keyboards [2] or under $10 by repurposing a used USB game controller (free if kids donate their old ones).
In this project a student would design and document how to hack a stuffed animal to be used as an input device similar to a joystick or arrow and a few other keys to allow a nonverbal child to use their favorite stuffed animal as an input device.
;Expected results: Documentation and parts lists for Hacking a Stuffed Animal into an input device. Some basic demonstration programs to use the input device with Etoys, TurtleArt etc.
;Knowledge prerequisite: Maker skills. To Hack a stuffed animal. Etoys (If student knows Scratch, they can learn the skills needed in Etoys for this project)
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!valign=top | || valign=top |PECS system for Non-Verbal Communication|| valign=top |Stephen Thomas||align=left valign=top|
;Brief explanation: Many children can not communicate verbally whether due to nonverbal autism or some other factor. While there are many catalogs and websites with adaptive equipment and software but the prices are high. There is a OLPC deployment in Uraguay where a student uses his stuffed animal as an input device for using an XO and Etoys. We would like to build on this to make it easier and lower cost or these children and their parents to communicate and use computers. The software would be free and OpenSource and the hardware to hack a Stuffed Animal could potentially repurpose old keyboards [2] or under $10 by repurposing a used USB game controller (free if kids donate their old ones).
In this project a student would a student would design a set of picture boards that could be navigated using a joystick or arrow keys and arrow and few other keys. The project would also allow a parent or teacher to simply add and re-arrange pictures using a webcam, imported pictures or simple drawings that can be made using Etoys[1]. Etoys runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS and is one of the core applications in the OLPC XO.
;Expected results: Working Etoys program where a student could navigate a PECS ([http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4434 Picture Exchange Communication System]) like system to communicate with others. Also the ability for parents and caregivers can modify the PECS elements with little to no training.
;Knowledge prerequisite: Maker skills. To Hack a stuffed animal. Etoys (If student knows Scratch, they can learn the skills needed in Etoys for this project)}