Projects

Sugar

Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface.

Read activity

The Read activity allows the XO to act as a book reader. It has a simple interface, and will view many kinds of text and image based book-like materials (PDF, Epub, PS, CBZ, etc). It will have particular strengths in handheld mode, with extremely low power consumption and simple navigation controls.

Sugar Pippy Activity

Teaches Python programming by providing access to Python code samples and a fully interactive Python interpreter. The user can type and execute simple Python expressions. For example, it would be possible for a user to write Python statements to calculate expressions, play sounds, or make simple text animation.

Editor Musical

Editor Musical (or Musical Editor) is a musical tool developed by LSI (Laboratorio de Sistemas Integraveis) in python that helps children to learn music and stimulate children's creativity. The python version works in Sugar (the environment of OLPC project).

Develop

The Develop Activity is the "Activity for making Activities" for the One Laptop Per Child project. In the spirit of Constructivism, OLPC needs a collaborative, intuitive and simple mechanism for fledgling hackers to write software in the same class the officially supplied activities. It ... [More] needs to be accessible for both educators who need implement a solid early computer science curriculum and young people who simply wish to play with their computer to make things for making's sake. [Less]

OLPC School Server

The School Server is one of the products of the OLPC project, designed to complement the XO. It is a Linux-based OS (a Fedora-based distribution) designed to be installed on generic low-end servers.

OLPC DS-Backup

Part of the OLPC infrastructure - these are the XO-to-XS backup scripts.

sugar-clic

The main objective of this project is to adapt JClic to the Sugar/OLPC platform, thus mitigating the lack of educational content that is currently for OLPC, making this platform available JClic activities that exist on the Internet. The JClic is a suite of applications created by Francesc Busquets ... [More] the education department of the Generalitat of Catalonia which are for various types of educational activities, it is an open source project and since is developed in the Java platform, works in various settings (browser, desktop , etc..) as well as various operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS). The OLPC project (One Laptod per Child) is a partnership that is developing a low-cost laptop (which is called "XO" laptop ") to revolutionize the way of educating children, especially those in the poorest countries, providing children a computer robust, cost and fuel consumption, with possibilities of connection (such as Internet) and with software designed for participatory education, fun and, to some extent, self-sufficient. More specifically, this project to JClic focuses on developing a Clic Activity Player, to deliver contents already created by educators worldwide. This project is leaded by Maria Jose Casany and Ludo (Marc Alier) from the GESSI research group of the UPC, and benefits from contributions of several students of the Computer Science School FIB at UPC Barcelona. Our friend Martin Langhoff in the OLPC XS project allows us to use two XO laptops for testing purposes. Gracias Martin, como ves ya estamos liberando código! [Less]

OLPC software updater

OLPC software update tools.

pyrobot

PyRobot is a high-level Python interface, built on pySerial, to iRobot's Roomba and Create. PyRobot is also the name of another Python robotics library formerly known as Pyro. PyRobot was originally created for this instructable for using the Create and an OLPC for telepresence. Since then ... [More] , the telepresence project has become project Fido. Fido uses a GSD web interface for controlling the Create/Roomba over the internet. Fido Features Automated docking and charging of both the OLPC and the Create. Arduino control of the Create's power and a high-intensity LED flashlight for night driving. Control of a QuickCam Orbit in addition to the OLPC's built in camera. Automatic diagnostics to keep the robot running. Text-to-speech synthesis using Flite. Fido Web Interface Features Remote control of movement, lighting, and Flite. Streaming sensor data with sparklines. Streaming logging from the Fido server. Click-to-pan control of the Orbit (clicking on the webcam image pans/tilts to center on that position). [Less]