Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Android + Lego Mindstorm NXT via App Inventor.

Finally had a chance to go back and try out the MIT version.

Working well.

The unclear part was hooking up the bluetooth connection;  had to use google and find a sample showing how to connect it up.

Bluetooth keyboard working on the olpc XO running XOpup-2.2

mysteriously worked like magic; the small lump on the left is the bluetooth adaptor;
the keyboard is a Verbatim Ultra-Slim Bluetooth keyboard.


How?


The system found the keyboard itself;  I did not type any passwords to pair it;
which I found rather odd.  I had several web pages up, and my son was watching me.  I took out the bluetooth dongle to show him, and plugged it back in;  he was playing with the keyboard, and it started to work.

hmmm....



Thursday, April 12, 2012