ALSO --> and this may be a big hurdle, the IT department WILL NOT allow me to install software on the student machines. Besides asking students to bring in laptops for this endeavor, does anyone have an idea how I can overcome this obstacle and get my students the software they need for this ongoing adventure? We have 28 student computers, each has 6GB RAM, good processors, and blah, blah, blah.
scenario 1:
Ask the IT department for some old 1GB windows XP machines to play with. They are more than fast enough to run the IDE22.
Let them make a ghost image of a clean install, that can be copied to all of them, very easily. And let the students keep their sketches on a USBstick.
advantages:
- all freedom
- easy to repair
- reuse of otherwise "old" hardware
scenario 2:
I never tried, but maybe one could run the Arduino in VMware.. (make a virtual PC on the 6GB machines running the Arduino environment)
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