A huge part of the project for the HFOSS course is creating a game/application/contribution to Sugar Labs projects. As I am not a game design student I proposed a project that will take a little bit of a different path that would include hardware, my interest (and stronger suit).

The XO laptops can interface with these sensors or, with a modified XO, a serial port. We are hoping to use these sensors to build off of the Measurement Activity to build a WeatherStation activity of some sort.

Realistically, we would like to use the hummidity sensor, and temperature sensor and build an activity to measure these and graph them. As a stretch goal, it would be nice if the student had to place the datapoint themselves to teach graphing skills.

For now our ideas are a little vague, but the team will be Rob Clifford, Chis Cordi, Greg Ekstrom, and myself. We will be reaching out to Walter Bender on IRC to see if he will mentor us for this project since he gave us sensors already, and the FOSSBox has a good relationship with him.