Sophie movies
Steve is posting screen clips of progress in Sophie (a.k.a. the Future of the Book), which is developed in Squeak with a Tweak UI. It's looking nicer and nicer every week.
View ArticleSmalltalk Party Brussels 11 March 2006
Only six days left to the Smalltalk Party in Brussels! I'll be there, and more interesting people, too. You should come, too!
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Squeak for every child
Lately I work on Squeak integration in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, perhaps better known as the "$100 laptop". The whole etoys group came over to OLPC's office in Cambridge. Squeak looks...
View ArticleOLPC talk at design school
I gave a talk about the $100-laptop at the Magdeburg school of Industrial Design. We did some very inspiring projects using Squeak, Etoys, and Croquet together before. The designers always come up with...
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Etoys kid-tested on XO
I brought my green machine home this weekend, and my twins had fun with it. Enormous fun in fact for the two 7-year olds, pounding on TamTam furiously. I couldn't bear it anymore after half an hour or...
View ArticleOpenGL in a Workspace
On some modern Linux systems, Croquet does not work anymore because OpenGL failes to initialize. Now, I originally wrote that code, and it worked fine for years. So it can't possibly be buggy, right?...
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Interactive OLPC XO Display Simulation
Many people still have not seen the innovative display of the OLPC project's "XO" laptop. It has twice the resolution of a regular LCD (200 dpi), and works in bright daylight in gray-scale reflective...
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Croquet for Business: Qwaq Forums
So Qwaq came out of "stealth-mode" and reveiled what they have been working on for a while now, Qwaq Forums:Qwaq Forums, the company's first product, is a secure virtual workspace application that...
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In-depth review of XO in German c't magazine
There's a glowing review of the OLPC project and its XO machine in the current issue 07/2007 of c't magazine. The in-depth article by Dr. Jürgen Rink describes the project's history and educational...
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Croquet SDK 1.0 released
Get it while it's hot from the equally new Croquet Consortium web site.
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OLPC review now online, English too
The extensive OLPC article by c't magazine is now available online in both original German and an English translation. It's a thorough review (they had a B1 machine) with some interesting photographs...
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European grassroots meeting
I went to Brussels last weekend, meeting with folks from OLPC Europe, OLPC Boston, and some other European grassroots (me representing OLPC Germany e.V.). We mostly discussed how to implement the new...
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Peaceful Holidays ...
... and a Happy 2009 to everyone from me and my family.Presented by my XO-hugging USB men (who seem to have more memory capacity than me at times).Featuring a seriously tree-infested Etoys project,...
View ArticleHow to write a Sugar activity in Squeak/Etoys
Milan just started a blog describing how to write activities in Squeak, see his first post. There are already a few of these, most notably the games by Robert Hirschfeld's students at the University of...
View ArticleSqueak Etoys on iPad
In preparation of making Etoys work on the recently announced OLPC tablet, I ported it to the iPad. Here is a video—read on below for some details:This might look exciting, and it certainly is, but it...
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ESUG 2010 in Barcelona
This year's conference logo was designed by my good friend Patty Gadegast.I just returned from the European Smalltalk User Group conference in Barcelona, Spain. It was a really nice experience. There...
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Squeak Etoys on ARM-based OLPC XO-1.75
First post this year, yikes! The last one was about ESUG 2010 in Barcelona, now I just returned from ESUG 2011 in Edinburgh. While I was there, a package with the shiny new XO-1.75 prototype...
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Squeak Etoys running on OLPC XO-3 tablet
SJ brought a hand-assembled XO-3 prototype to the OLPC Community Summit in San Francisco (mass production only starts when someone puts in a large-scale order), and of course I tried to run Etoys on...
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Smalltalk Bindings for Minecraft Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a cute little computer. Quite cheap at $35, you plug in USB keyboard+mouse and a TV as monitor. And it is surprisingly capable, even for running 3D games.One particularly...
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SqueakJS: A Lively Squeak VM
I'm proud to announce SqueakJS, a new Squeak VM that runs on Javascript:SqueakJS project pageIt was inspired by Dan's JSqueak/Potato VM for Java, and similarly only runs the old Squeak 2.2 mini.image...
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SqueakJS runs Etoys now
TL;DR: Try Etoys in your web browser without a plugin (still buggy, but even works on iPad). Feedback from more platforms is very welcome, and fixes to improve the compatibility, too.—Half a year has...
View ArticleDeconstructing Floats: frexp() and ldexp() in JavaScript
While working on my SqueakJS VM, it became necessary to deconstruct floating point numbers into their mantissa and exponent parts, and assembling them again. Peeking into the C sources of the regular...
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Emulating Smalltalk-76
If you got as excited as me about Dan Ingalls'live Smalltalk-76 demo on an actual 1970's Xerox Alto, you may have wanted to try it yourself. This is actually possible, and here is how:First, you need...
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