The Weekly Squeak

What’s the best way to make a website with Smalltalk? Aida! Join the creator of the Aida web development framework in the Web Team mailing list two weeks from now for an online workshop between the 18th and 22nd. If you have never tried Aida before or are a power user and need tips on…

The Squeak evolution as a body of code allows anybody to submit a change to the Inbox. Only those who are core developers can move that code into the Trunk to become part of the next release. Owing to their outstanding contributions, the Squeak Oversight Board has invited four people to become core developers: Frank Shearar,…

The BeagleBone is a single-board computer from Texas Instruments for creating hardware projects similar to  Arduino. David Graham has installed Squeak on the BeagleBone and then connected to the running image with VNC. This is likely the easiest way to begin to make a working robot with Squeak. This project is similar to Physical Etoys,…

The latest versionof the software found around the world in the One Laptop Per Child computer — Etoys — is now available from the Squeakland website. In Etoys 5 you’ll find new features such as single-stepping a script, attached watchers, a graph paper tool, and ScratchConnect, a way to connect Etoys and Scratch.

Squeakfest 2012 in Uruguay and Argentina is coming up soon: 17 to 23 May in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in introductory workshops, develop content for various curricular areas, learn about project development, educational robotics and other topics related to Squeak Etoys and the One Laptop Per Child project.