[Pharo-project] [ANN] Physical Etoys 2.0 released!
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies), I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of new features: 1. First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. 2. We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version. 3. Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which is called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools. 4. We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the use of digital devices attached to analog pins. 5. We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a variable across time and save it to a csv file. 6. We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your scripts and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users. 7. And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a lot more stable (or so we hope :). I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much better than the last and I encourage you all to try it. And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older students). So we are *really* excited about this! Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical Etoys 2.0 from our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/. Cheers, Richo
Wow! Felicitaciones queda muy chico para uds!!! Y si que se puede!! Congrats by your fantastic job! 2012/4/20, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran@gmail.com>:
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies),
I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of new features:
1. First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. 2. We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version. 3. Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which is called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools. 4. We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the use of digital devices attached to analog pins. 5. We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a variable across time and save it to a csv file. 6. We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your scripts and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users. 7. And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a lot more stable (or so we hope :).
I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much better than the last and I encourage you all to try it. And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older students). So we are *really* excited about this!
Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical Etoys 2.0 from our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/.
Cheers, Richo
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ricardo I would love to play with ardino. Do you have a suggestion for a useful configuration in terms of board, motors� Because there are a lot of choices and I do not know what to buy. Stef On Apr 21, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Ricardo Moran wrote:
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies),
I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of new features: ⢠First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. ⢠We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version. ⢠Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which is called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools. ⢠We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the use of digital devices attached to analog pins. ⢠We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a variable across time and save it to a csv file. ⢠We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your scripts and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users. ⢠And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a lot more stable (or so we hope :). I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much better than the last and I encourage you all to try it. And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older students). So we are *really* excited about this!
Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical Etoys 2.0 from our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/.
Cheers, Richo
I have got a (ARDX) kit from www.oomlout.com and it comes with quite a bunch of useful things. Bought it at FOSDEM a year ago or so. Philippe 2012/4/21 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>
ricardo
I would love to play with ardino. Do you have a suggestion for a useful configuration in terms of board, motors� Because there are a lot of choices and I do not know what to buy. Stef
On Apr 21, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Ricardo Moran wrote:
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies),
I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of new features: ⢠First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. ⢠We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version. ⢠Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which is called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools. ⢠We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the use of digital devices attached to analog pins. ⢠We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a variable across time and save it to a csv file. ⢠We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your scripts and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users. ⢠And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a lot more stable (or so we hope :). I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much better than the last and I encourage you all to try it. And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older students). So we are *really* excited about this!
Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical Etoys 2.0 from our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/.
Cheers, Richo
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On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr
wrote:
ricardo
I would love to play with ardino. Do you have a suggestion for a useful configuration in terms of board, motors� Because there are a lot of choices and I do not know what to buy.
Hi Stef, I don't know what are your needs but I'll tell you what we have here. For the arduino versions we have an Arduino UNO, a couple of Arduino Duemilanove with ATmega328, and an Arduino MEGA
Stef
On Apr 21, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Ricardo Moran wrote:
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies),
I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of new features: ⢠First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. ⢠We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version. ⢠Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which is called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools. ⢠We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the use of digital devices attached to analog pins. ⢠We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a variable across time and save it to a csv file. ⢠We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your scripts and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users. ⢠And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a lot more stable (or so we hope :). I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much better than the last and I encourage you all to try it. And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older students). So we are *really* excited about this!
Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical Etoys 2.0 from our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/.
Cheers, Richo
Sorry, this damn gmail hotkeys sent the mail before I finished writing it. Let me try again :P On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr
wrote:
ricardo
I would love to play with ardino. Do you have a suggestion for a useful configuration in terms of board, motors� Because there are a lot of choices and I do not know what to buy.
Hi Stef,
I don't know what are your needs but I'll tell you what we have here. For the arduino versions we have an Arduino UNO, a couple of Arduino Duemilanove with ATmega328, and an Arduino MEGA 2560. We use mostly the first two. Then we also have an Electronic Brick Starter Kit ( http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/electronic-brick-starter-kit-p-506.html) that provides a couple of sensors and a really nice interface to plug/unplug components. And finally, we also have a couple of servos and some dc motors. Keep in mind we only use that to test stuff, we almost never build something useful out of it but it should be enough to let you started. :) Cheers, Richo
Stef
On Apr 21, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Ricardo Moran wrote:
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies),
I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of new features:
⢠First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all
the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release.
⢠We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino
and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version.
⢠Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which
is called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools.
⢠We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the
use of digital devices attached to analog pins.
⢠We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a
variable across time and save it to a csv file.
⢠We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your
scripts and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users.
⢠And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a
lot more stable (or so we hope :).
I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much better than the last and I encourage you all to try it.
And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older students). So we are *really* excited about this!
Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical Etoys 2.0 from our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/.
Cheers,
Richo
Ricardo Moran wrote:
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies),
I would like to announce a new version of Physical Etoys, now with a lot of new features:
1. First of all, it's based on Etoys 5.0 so it incorporates all the bug-fixes and new features from the Etoys release. 2. We are now focusing on the two main hardware platforms: Arduino and Lego Mindstorms Nxt. For the rest, we will publish a set of "external modules" that you can install in your Physical Etoys version. 3. Also, we now support an argentinian version of Arduino, which is called DuinoBot and it's currently being used in a lot of argentinian schools. 4. We added new devices for arduino and now we also support the use of digital devices attached to analog pins. 5. We added two new objects that let you graph the input of a variable across time and save it to a csv file. 6. We added a new programming mode that lets you compile your scripts and have them running inside the robot, in contrast to running them in the computer and communicate with the robot via bluetooth or usb. We believe this opens a lot of new posibilities for the Physical Etoys users. 7. And finally, we fixed a lot of bugs that make the software a lot more stable (or so we hope :).
I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank all the people from the Etoys community for their work on Etoys 5, this latest version is much better than the last and I encourage you all to try it. And also, I would like to announce that Physical Etoys 2.0 is going to be installed by default on all the laptops of the "Conectar igualdad" program, which is kind of like the argentinian version of OLPC (but for older students). So we are *really* excited about this!
Now that you're all as excited as we are :) you can download and try Physical Etoys 2.0 from our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/.
Cheers, Richo
Interfacing with Arduino is very cool. It is high on my list of things to play with (as time permits) Now in case you ever need anything more industrial/powerful (but more costly) here are a couple of things I have been kept a wishful eye on for a couple of years (but I have not yet had time to play with). I share this on the random chance someone gets interested in it before I get a chance to play - hopefully early next year. http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7350 200MHz ARM9 CPU; 32MB SDRAM (64-128MB opt) 8MB RAM Framebuffer; able to drive TFT-LCDs via custom FPGA 5K LUT FPGA <---------------- Boots Linux 2.6 in about 1 second <---------------- 1 10/100 ethernet port, 2 USB 2.0 (12Mbit/s max), 1 SD Card slot $129 http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7550 250MHz ARM9 CPU; 64MB DDR-RAM; 256MB SLC XNAND Drive Customizable 5K LUT OpenCore FPGA <---------------- 1 10/100 Ethernet, 33 DIO, SPI and I2C interfaces, 8 TTL UART, 1 CAN bus $89 http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=628 http://www.embeddedarm.com/documentation/articles/reliability.pdf http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/pc104-peripherals.php cheers -ben
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote: (...)
Interfacing with Arduino is very cool. It is high on my list of things to play with (as time permits)
Hi Ben, Now in case you ever need anything more industrial/powerful (but more
costly) here are a couple of things I have been kept a wishful eye on for a couple of years (but I have not yet had time to play with). I share this on the random chance someone gets interested in it before I get a chance to play - hopefully early next year.
Well, I don't think it's really fair to compare these computers with arduino :) but if you happen to play with one of those let us know your results. What I would like is to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi now. Cheers, Richo
http://www.embeddedarm.com/**products/board-detail.php?**product=TS-7350<http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7350> 200MHz ARM9 CPU; 32MB SDRAM (64-128MB opt) 8MB RAM Framebuffer; able to drive TFT-LCDs via custom FPGA 5K LUT FPGA <---------------- Boots Linux 2.6 in about 1 second <---------------- 1 10/100 ethernet port, 2 USB 2.0 (12Mbit/s max), 1 SD Card slot $129
http://www.embeddedarm.com/**products/board-detail.php?**product=TS-7550<http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7550> 250MHz ARM9 CPU; 64MB DDR-RAM; 256MB SLC XNAND Drive Customizable 5K LUT OpenCore FPGA <---------------- 1 10/100 Ethernet, 33 DIO, SPI and I2C interfaces, 8 TTL UART, 1 CAN bus $89
cheers -ben
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