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?)

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

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)

I will be in Kentucky rebuilding houses for people in need all week. See everyone 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

I've also been working on an ubuntu boot on an SD card, still in progress..

Continuing work on the physics playground game... Continuing work on the Ubuntu SD card...