On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:48 PM, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to announce that Gary Chiang has joined OLPC as > a contractor, working on hardware development and teaching > repair procedures. Gary is no stranger to the project, having > worked on all OLPC laptops while at Quanta Computer, Inc. > He has the distinction of having worked on OLPC hardware for > longer than anyone else, starting with Mark Foster early in the > XO-1 development! > > Gary will be based out of Taipei for now, and can be reached > at [email protected]. > > Welcome Gary! > > I'm particularly enticed by what your plans are when it comes to teaching > repair procedures.
[This is meant to be in addition to Gary's reply] Gary has literally been "the guy who teaches the factory how to fix the motherboards". He spent over a week in Uruguay teaching them both the basic manual skills and techniques for repairing SMD PCB repair and specific debugging techniques for the XO-1 motherboard. In terms of scaling him up, we should probably dedicate a video crew next time he does this. The current approach works only for the larger deployments --- but the tools and parts needed aren't necessarily cost effective for smaller deployments. Suggestions ? wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
