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== Current tasklist == |
== Current tasklist == |
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* schedule visit to the Trotter School, coordinate with Engineering Discovery |
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* contact Lynne Robbins |
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* continue Yalp interface design |
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* schedule office hours |
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* brainstorming |
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* documentation |
* documentation |
Revision as of 19:58, 14 November 2007
This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin college OLPC university chapter.
Projects
Please post proposed projects here, so that we can apply for Developers program support (like XOs to use).
Project Name | Project Description | Professor | Contact | Materials needed | Additional Information |
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the title/name of your project | a basic description of your project | which Olin prof is supervising your project? (required) | your name here (link to user page, if you have a wiki account) | what do you need to do it? | anything else you want to say |
Yalp | Audio sampling toy | n/a | Ben Fisher | nothing - done | |
Distributed mesh weather sensors (as an educational and research tool) | Create a USB weather data collection unit that can be inexpensively produced and provided to (students / schools). | Software Design / POE | Greg | Some money for prototyping, some people who like electronics, some people who want to develop the backend, some people who want to develop the XO mesh logging software. | Just an idea Andy Barry, myself, and Evan Morikawa came up with. |
"Lights" game for OLPCs | Implement the "lights" game for the OLPC. [Online version of game]. | Software Design | Greg | An OLPC and someone who knows a bit about PyGame type stuff. | It's a super fun addictive game. |
"Unicoder" Character Pad | Simple text editor for quickly entering non-ascii characters. | Unknown | Ben Fisher | Completion, ideas, feedback, maybe someone who knows Sugar | I'm not sure whether this should be a dhtml-js or Python-gui. I have something that kinda works in Firefox. |
MIDIpad | A program for creating electronic music. | Unknown | Ben Fisher | A bit more planning, implementation. I don't have enough time to do this alone. | Although many people associate MIDIs with cheap crappy audio, this is only only because modern computers tend to use low-quality instruments. Back in the day, there were actually good-sounding MIDI sound cards. Timidity can also render using SoundFonts, and there are some very good SoundFonts available online. |
Mp3 tagger | Program for adding/changing ID3 tags for mp3/ogg audio files. The freeware program Mp3Tag is very good but its source is closed. Also, I'd like to add some ways to make metadata entry faster. | Unknown | Ben Fisher | Finishing it, help with the gui | Will the user need to organize files? What is the XO's filesystem? |
USB GPS Device | Hardware GPS to connect to XO. | Unknown | Andy P | Software modification | This is another example of hardware that could produce value to international companies, creating income generation opportunities. |
Development Image on ACL Machine | Install Sugar onto an ACL machine so we can play with it, and test things out faster than on the XOs | Mark Chang, hopefully | Stephen L | ACL Machine, Sugar image, Fedora | Should be useful |
Meeting notes
Archives of minutes can be viewed at the Olin university chapter/archives page.
11/9/07
Lynne
- Lynne works with special ed kids
- Lynne is only deaf person at school, everyone else can hear
- Got them involved with robotix (2002)
- Do it after school
- Saw Olin's website
- Creative things with few materials
- So far lego robotics and math
- want to move to not-lego robotics
- kids not quite making the grades for standardized tests
- mcats (MA state preformance tests)
- reading
- writing
- social science
- science (lowest score in science))
- mcats (MA state preformance tests)
- school is restructuring
- data analysis - look at mcat scores, see if doing well at math, etc
- students want project-based learning
- maybe do curriculum, with projects, focus on some data results (students scores)- ie bark-meter to see what dog is saying when barks
- interested in art, music, etc, try not to downsize
- K-5, ages 3-12
- VHP person came to school, gave school $10,000
- mentors keep kids from giving up
- especially girls give up
- not enough people
want:
- come to look at school, see if it's what we want to do
- implement project-based learning
- tag with Engineering Discovery (Needham, Heena)
- Steve is working in Hyde Park (FIRST)
- Andy P remedial math programs
- Wellesley connection:
- Andy P has connection
- SWE may have connection
- want to activate this
we should:
- meet with Engineering Discovery
- maybe semester-long project to integrate
- robotic puppets, keyboards, etc
- Fred Martin at UMASS develped the "cricket" (robotic computer)
- can create puppets and interactive art, carwash
- maybe semester-long project to integrate
Haruna
- from tech boston
- size people department
- try to support schools in advanced projects,
- second year involved in robotics
- city-wide involvement
- middle school kids do FIRST
VEX:
- aluminum/steel
- halfway between lego robots and FIRST
- november 19th good time to visit principal?
- possibly in morning, at 10
- have a lot of data of student progress that we could look at for inspiration
- lots of % of students who don't understand this or that
- perfect solution:
- students think of a project to build and create
- brainstorming
- how to get a car to levitate?
- In the end, the kids say "I did this"
- mentorship seems to be key component
- sucessful, sucess often, sense of acomplishment, role model and content expertise
- emphasize student-built curriculum, less teacher talking, more student talking
- we can brainstorm projects for them, interesting ideas (solar cars?)
- Greg had Invention Convention in middle school
- grant is for MCATS, follows them from 3rd grade to 5th grade, for science classes.
Current tasklist
- schedule visit to the Trotter School, coordinate with Engineering Discovery
- continue Yalp interface design
- schedule office hours
- brainstorming
- documentation