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Sad. I always thought that OLPC was a great idea poorly implemented. Sugar was interesting but a bit too out there for most people to want hack on. The mesh ne
by spiralpolitik 13y ago
Sad.
I always thought that OLPC was a great idea poorly implemented. Sugar was interesting but a bit too out there for most people to want hack on. The mesh networking was the best part.
I wish they had used standard PC hardware so that the communities that got the hardware could learn to service the devices and make changes to the software themselves thus building local technology savvy communities that could use technology to solve their problems with in community knowledge thus enable a ground up technology movement.
- adricnet 13y agoUh.. if you are not trolling you are badly mis-informed. XO-1 was, "standard PC" x86, in part to get cheaper available components. They didn't switch to ARM until after the price per processor came down enough to make it viable, though it would have been more efficient to start there (cf Intel-Microsoft-Negroponte politics). Parts were and are shipped in to the locations. The laptops were designed to be field repairable to an extent well beyond any commercial laptop (then or now): resources start here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair and include teardown and repair instructions. XO-1 series are,were much more repairable than any new or 2nd-hand consumer electronics gear you can get. I only hope they manage it with XO-4. Touchscreens are pretty fragile.
- spiralpolitik 13y agoLabel me mis-informed.