[gcompris-devel] about electric schema

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le vendredi 27 avril 2012 à 19:06 +0200, Jose Jorge a écrit :
> I offered my 7 years old son a circuit maker game, and he likes it a
> lot.
> In gcompris, he mostly misses the elements you list :
> 
> - capacitor

This is interesting to add a capacitor but this required to make a
dynamic simulation. Currently, I just make a static one, I set the
layout, some input and grab the output given by gnucap. A dynamic
simulation is more complex even if gnucap does support it.

> - color diode
> 
Yes, this is very easy to do, we already have a diode so it is just
copy / paste it to make a diode. Are you interested in doing it ?

> The big plus would be having a model to remake, to get a goal in this 
> activity. 


A model is not necessary a good idea. Just doing a copy is not very
educational. Following your idea, having a goal would be interesting and
not necessarily too complex. For example we could ask the children to:

- bring a lamp to light
- bring a lamp to light through a switch
- make a lamp burn (the children must put 2 batteries in serial)
- use the variable resistance to vary the light

If someone is interested to work on this, patches are welcome.

Bruno.