Re: [squeak-dev] [ANN] Physical Etoys 2.0 released!
Ricardo Moran <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM, karl ramberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulation. > Project looks great. > Getting a Lego Robot is on my list of stuff I want if I ever have > any excess money :-) > Thanks Karl, Lego is a little expensive but it's a lot of fun :) > > Karl > > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Ricardo Moran <[email protected]>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 >> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list [email protected] http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland