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June 2008
XO-2 - OLPC
by karlcow
On May 21, 2008, at an OLPC Country Meeting, design studies of a next-generation OLPC laptop (the XOXO or XO-2) were shown to attendees and to the world press.
May 2008
Pixel Qi - About Us
by springnet
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen was previously the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child. Notably Mary Lou invented the laptop's sunlight-readable display
Xo Laptop 2.0: OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens, Looks Amazing and Future-y
by springnet
At OLPC's Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. Wow! Dual touch screen!
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March 2008
Create Digital Music
by 4004
8.5 GB of Free, CC-Licensed Samples from the OLPC Project, and OLPC Music Tools
February 2008
Classmate PC
by wabaus
A classmate PC, powered by Intel, is a small, mobile learning assistant and educational solution that Intel specially developed for students in emerging markets.
January 2008
Bunnie on OLPC XO-1
by znarf
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Hardware of the OLPC seems very robust and well designed. Software seems to sucks.
December 2007
Image:Power-button.jpg - OLPC
by karlcow
Ouch. Les bouttons du OLPC sont les boutons de la PSP de Sony… Conditionnement marketing ? ou événement de la pop culture ? Est-ce que l'OLPC a obtenu une license pour ? Ah non Vieille photo surement, donc bien un phénomène de la pop culture. need new graphics for right-hand game buttons
Egalement dans ce mail
Some Sony people stopped by the OLPC booth and mentioned that the Sony game controller labels the OLPC beta unit was using might cause some problems if Sony's legal department ever found out about it (which they will, if they haven't already). It's extremely an extremely proprietary trademark, like the Nike "swoosh" logo. Somebody from OLPC said that was a known issue but was ok because it was going to change and the current laptop was not for commercial production.
Battery Charging - OLPC
by karlcow
Problème dans les régions chaudes du monde ? Et quand l'ordinateur est hors d'usage, quel est le programme pour le changer, le réparer, et ne pas avoir la batterie dans la nature ?The NiMH batteries cannot be charged above about 45 degrees C.
September 2007
One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Laptop: A learning tool created expressly for the children in developing nations
by springnet
* Dimensions: 242mm×228mm×32mm (approximate—subject to change) * Weight: Less than 1.5 KG (target only—subject to change) * Configuration: Convertible laptop with pivoting, reversible display; dirt- and moisture-resistant system enclosu
April 2007
March 2007
OLPC and python
by pvergain
The software is far from finished. An early version of the GUI and window manager are available, and a few small demo applications: chat, video, two games, and a web browser, and that's about it! The plan is to write all applications in Python (except for the web browser), and a "view source" button should show the Python source for the currently running application. In the tradition of Smalltalk (Alan Kay is on the OLPC board, and has endorsed the project's use of Python) the user should be able to edit any part of a "live" aplication and see the effects of the change immediately in the application's behavior. (A versioned document store will make it possible to roll back disastrous changes.) This is where Krstic wants my help: he hopes I can work magic and implement this feature for Python. I got started right away during the conference, with a reimplementation of python's reload() function that can patch classes and functions in place. Even this small component still has a long way to go; a checkpoint of the work in progress is checked into subversion as part of the Py3k standard library. That's not where the rest of my OLPC work will show up; they use GIT for source control, so I will get to learn that.
