Changes

2. OLPC OZ runs a discussion website on yammer.com for teachers working with XOs in Australia. It is a nice source of feedback about Sugar and 1-to-1 laptop deployments in general.

2. OLPC OZ runs a discussion website on yammer.com for teachers working with XOs in Australia. It is a nice source of feedback about Sugar and 1-to-1 laptop deployments in general.

Recently, there was a posting that referenced an [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/measuring_a_lemon_battery_with_measure.html OLPC News article about a lemon-battery project] by Sameer Verma. There was also a tip of the hat to Guzman Trindad, a teacher in Uruguay, who built a [http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/peripherals/construir_un_pulsografo_con_xo.html pulse meter]. I am not sure how OLPC News missed all of the other [http://anisterra.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/fisica-con-xo/ great work that Guzman has been doing] with [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Uso_de_TortugaArte_Sensores Turtle Art and sensors] and also the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors work of Tony Forster], who [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/ blogs] regularly about various ways to engage children with simple sensor. His most recent posting is about using the accelerometer on the XO 1.75 as a seismograph. Check it out.

Recently, there was a posting that referenced an [http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/measuring_a_lemon_battery_with_measure.html OLPC News article about a lemon-battery project] by Sameer Verma. There was also a tip of the hat to Guzman Trindad, a teacher in Uruguay, who built a [http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/peripherals/construir_un_pulsografo_con_xo.html pulse meter]. I am not sure how OLPC News missed all of the other [http://anisterra.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/fisica-con-xo/ great work that Guzman has been doing] with [[Activities/TurtleArt/Uso_de_TortugaArte_Sensores | Turtle Art and sensors]] and also the [[Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors |work of Tony Forster]], who [http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/ blogs] regularly about various ways to engage children with simple sensors. His most recent posting is about using the accelerometer on the XO 1.75 as a seismograph. Check it out.

3. While Guzman and Tony have been using the built-in sensors and simple sensors plugged into the microphone port of the XO laptop, the Butia team in Uruguay has been augmenting the XO with an Arduino board. The latest video of their work is on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcpzVnuFP0M&feature=channel_video_title YouTube]. Be sure to watch past the 'Schwarzenegger' robot to see the XO robot programmed in Turtle Art.

3. While Guzman and Tony have been using the built-in sensors and simple sensors plugged into the microphone port of the XO laptop, the Butia team in Uruguay has been augmenting the XO with an Arduino board. The latest video of their work is on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcpzVnuFP0M&feature=channel_video_title YouTube]. Be sure to watch past the 'Schwarzenegger' robot to see the XO robot programmed in Turtle Art.