One very important thing the XO laptop has is mesh networking technology, and not just for use in the bush. A way to free the general computing public. An alternate internet free from monopoly control. Now that I say it more than one would be even better.
-Carl -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Corking Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 10:56 AM To: Fundamentals of New Computing Subject: Re: [fonc] OLPC related Loup Vaillant wrote: > So at least, you can salvage your granma's TV, making the whole set a bit > less expensive. Great news! (I don't think those connectors were in the video I saw on the site.) Thinking over what I wrote last night, I am getting much more excited about the disruptive educational and democratic possibilities of this device. While the builtin sensors of the XO have the appeal of a standard platform to develop for, I remembered that the robotics community has a useful range of USB transducers that makes the Raspberry Pi an interesting robotics processor. There is even this: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/USB_Sensor David _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
