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: While the students hand out the buzzers, she hooks his laptop up to the beamer, connects the EduBuzzer base station and explains the basics of the game. She starts the appropriate application, selects a well-known song and starts it. While the students carefully listen not to miss a beat and watch the scrolling tones, she can correct the last lesson's tests. | : While the students hand out the buzzers, she hooks his laptop up to the beamer, connects the EduBuzzer base station and explains the basics of the game. She starts the appropriate application, selects a well-known song and starts it. While the students carefully listen not to miss a beat and watch the scrolling tones, she can correct the last lesson's tests. | ||
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== Parts of the EduBuzzer == | == Parts of the EduBuzzer == | ||
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** The [[HSC2011/Software#JavaScript|games]] themselves run in a modern browser and can be extended using JavaScript; a library spares them the details of radio communication. | ** The [[HSC2011/Software#JavaScript|games]] themselves run in a modern browser and can be extended using JavaScript; a library spares them the details of radio communication. | ||
** A middleware called [[HSC2011/Software/Ygor|Ygor]] serves both the game software, as a persistence layer for games, and as a media converter to the base station connected via USB. | ** A middleware called [[HSC2011/Software/Ygor|Ygor]] serves both the game software, as a persistence layer for games, and as a media converter to the base station connected via USB. | ||
** The [[HSC2011/Software | ** The [[HSC2011/Software/Firmware|firmware]] flashed on the EduBuzzers and the base station reacts on hardware events and commands received over radio. If a game requires more complex actions on the hardware like animations over the LEDs, LED fading or music to be played, the firmware can run custom code in a [[HSC2011/Software/embedVM|virtual machine]]. | ||
* [[Image:edubuzzer_hardware.jpg|thumb]] The [[HSC2011/Hardware|hardware]] | * [[Image:edubuzzer_hardware.jpg|thumb]] The [[HSC2011/Hardware|hardware]] | ||
** The EduBuzzers themselves are handed out to students. Each buzzer is encased in an ergonomically designed rapid-prototyped case, 4cm high, 6.5cm wide and 11.5cm long. It contains | ** The EduBuzzers themselves are handed out to students. Each buzzer is encased in an ergonomically designed rapid-prototyped case, 4cm high, 6.5cm wide and 11.5cm long. It contains | ||
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*** a USB hub, | *** a USB hub, | ||
*** and a USB stick containing the software. | *** and a USB stick containing the software. | ||
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== Next steps == | == Next steps == | ||