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<td>Implement the "lights" game for the OLPC |
<td>Implement the "lights" game for the OLPC. [[http://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/lights_out/ Online version of game]].</td> |
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Fun logic games? Yay!</td> |
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<td>[[User:GregMarra|Greg]]</td> |
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<td>[[MIDIpad]]</td> |
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<td>A program for creating electronic music.</td> |
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<td>A program for creating electronic music. A full-featured MIDI editor with a well-thought out interface such that beginners can use it. Finished songs could be rendered using Timidity. (There used to be a Windows shareware program called WinJammer that might be worth looking at - it looks to have disappeared from the web but I have a copy).</td> |
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<td>Hardware GPS to connect to XO.</td> |
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<td>Hardware GPS to connect to XO. This would allow for many software possibilities, including the creation of accurate maps in small villages (roads and trails), and could tag pics taken with the built in camera with the coordinates, allowing for easy addition of pics to google earth.</td> |
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Revision as of 14:23, 22 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
10/20/07
- working with Lynne Robbins
- arranging a meeting with her
- discussing possible content/projects
- mentoring students
- discussion on give 1 get 1 program
- developer app still stalled
- Ben's project
- audio editing and synthesis for kids
- already mostly written - command line/basic GUI
- python based - can't synthesize in real time
- plans to design a better GUI/interface
- interface design ideas welcome - we'll have a interface design/brainstorm session sometime next week
Current tasklist
- contact Lynne Robbins
- schedule Yalp interface design meeting
- documentation