On 2022-03-14 17:42, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:
Thanks for all your interest and suggestions.
I was basically doing a bit of research for the German economist. I
had always known that the prime aim of the raspberry pi was education
and part of that was making it affordable so that those interested
could get their hands on one and feel the magic that we presumably all
enjoy. This is be very important for developing countries because they
need an army of technicians to help overcome the challenges that they
face. It seems to me that the raspberry pi, and associated educational
software could be enormously useful.
My almost accidental visit to the secondary school was quite
inspirational. It was amazing to see them teaching a full curriculum
under really tough conditions. Imagine doing chemistry or Physics
without and labwork. I of course was interested to see the ICT center.
I thought that the students would benefit a lot more if they had 5 - 6
raspberry pis so that each would have more keyboard time. However a
colleague said that the powers that be might think that the raspberry
pi is inferior to windows because that's what they use in Europe.
The school had a couple of solar panels ,a charger, a 12V battery and
a UPS with a normal PC attached to it. The solar set up was financed
by Polish Development aid and I think it could be easily extended.
They do get a lot of inappropriate stuff that they can't use because
of the environment. They had a load of very slim continental plug
sockets that would look great in a Swedish house but they are so hard
to fit that they were just hanging off the walls. What they needed was
something much more bulky with big screws and room to bend cables
around. Something to last.
James, the story about soldering with a heated iron bar sounded really
interesting. Can you be tempted to flesh it out a bit?
Different James, but I have used one that looks just like this including
the tray. Copper tip on a steel rod.
https://d3h6k4kfl8m9p0.cloudfront.net/stories/nyu8Phpc-br1CDdNVDkZkw.jpg
Regards
Roger
On 14/03/2022 09:30, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:
I was recently lucky enough to be involved in a development project in
a remote community in Ethiopia which involved installing solar and
batteries.
Whilst we were there we visited the local school which had an "ICT"
centre with a single PC and a further PC used by the staff. It was
basically a large mud hut with a earth floor. Despite this the school
had managed to get 25 students into higher education. I thought that
they could benefit from a few raspberry pis.
On the way back I met a German development economist who was working
for the EU in Botswana . He said they were interested in a UK product
"the raspberry pi".
I promised to send him some background info about the raspberry pi and
how it could be used in education which I know it must but haven't had
experience myself.
Can anybody suggest resources links that would be useful to pass on? I
haven't started yet but can imagine somebody out there may have much
more experience.
Regards
Roger
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