11.2.0/Robotics plan

Test matrix

Activity	E-toys	Scratch	TurtleArt	Pippy	Udev Rules	Notes
Nxt					SYSFS{idVendor}=="0694", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0002"
Arduino			[1]			http://seaside.citilab.eu/scratch/arduino
Pico (Scratch) Board		Working			SYSFS{idVendor}=="0403", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001	http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html
We do		Scratch-19	[2]	[3]	SYSFS{idVendor}=="0694", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003"
Go Go						Special activity (GoGo) [1]
Sensors			[4] See [3]			Connect sensors to audio input
Decode audio tone			[5]			Use frequency decoders eg. LM567 to control multiple outputs
Picaxe						A low cost solution, Linux programming environment available [6] though the chip and board is cheap, the USB cable is $30 [7]
Ti Launchpad [8]						Another low cost solution, "able to compile msp430-gcc on the xo-1.5 and use it with mspdebug to upload firmware"

Udev rules

We Do:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="0694", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="0664", GROUP="olpc"

Links

http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/LEGO_Education_WeDo_Robotics_Kit

http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/PicoBoard

http://www.picocricket.com/picoboard.html

http://seaside.citilab.eu/scratch/arduino

TurtleArt fork for arduino? http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/search/label/Arduino

Additional notes

Having an oscilloscope available is always handy when working with sensors. We may want to extend Measure to support sensors made available through Arduino, WeGo, etc.

Other robotics pages

• robotics
• Peripherals/Robots