Vernier Go! Sensors Now Compatible with the OLPC Computer
Our new LabQuest is really a Linux computer using GNOME desktop environment and the X Window System display system. There is another well-known computer that shares these features. It is the One Laptop Per Child computer, also known as the $100 Computer or XO.
When we were developing the operating system and initial programs for LabQuest, our programmers got to know the OLPC programmers as part of the open source community. We got an OLPC computer, and we found it relatively easy to move our LabQuest App to the OLPC computer.
If you have an OLPC computer, you can download our LabQuest App (free) from www.vernier.com/olpc, and use Go!Temp, Go!Motion, or Go! Link and any of our 40 Go! Link-compatible sensors with it.