User talk:Alexlevenson

Weekly Updates

I will keep a log here of my progress each week.

Week of 6/2/2008

• Starting to settle in here at OLPC Cambridge
• Began setting up a demo XO that shows off many non-standard capabilities of the XO
  • Progress and goals can be found on the wiki page
• Began discussing my future projects
  • Physics Game / Incredible Machine clone
  • IDE (based on Develop?)

Week of 6/9/2008

• Continued work on the demo project
• Began discussing with Brian about ways to attack physics projects
  • Decided we need to update elements
    • Elements is nice, but WIP
    • Isn't ready for use
    • However, pyBox2D not user friendly
• Wrote a very simple elements demo for demo build

Week of 6/16/2008

• Went to Joint Warfighting Conference with SJ, Seth, and Richard (from OLPC DC)
  • Gave demos to and informed conference goers about the project
  • Met many high up people with high levels of interest, including
    • Education board of AFCEA
    • Now retired but extremely influential member of AFCEA who brought AFCEA to the EU
    • Military personnel very interested in the project
• Would really like to begin updating elements (possibly with Brian) next week (well the week after that because I won't be here)

Week of 6/23/2008

I will be in Kentucky rebuilding houses for people in need all week. See everyone 6/30/2008.

Week of 6/30/2008

I've been making big progress on the physics playground game, which is a building block for the incredible machine game. This week I've added:

• Tools
  • Box -- draws a box of any dimension
  • Circle -- draws a circle of any radius
  • Triangle -- draw an equilateral triangle of any size and orientation
  • Polygon -- draw a polygon point by point
  • Magic Pen -- draw any shape you'd like!
  • Grab -- grab + throw objects
  • Joint -- add joints between any objects
• Menus for all the tools mentioned above
• Code can be found in our git repository: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/physics