On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 22:45:26 +0100 Christoph Derndorfer <christoph.derndor...@gmail.com> wrote this:
> Hi Harv, > > great to hear from you. > > Are you still based in Denmark? Because there's at least one student at > Aarhus University who's currently working on a PhD thesis which is > related to OLPC, plus in the past two other students did similar > research work there as well. Hi Christoph and others, I have left LEGO Education and Denmark last year which was a quite difficult decision, as it was a great place to work, but as you know big companies are run by marketing and not by research results. > Additionally Mitch (in CC) who supports an OLPC project in the > Philippines is currently working for the university in Copenhagen. > Seeing that he's currently looking into the Raspberry Pi module and how > it could potentially be used for education in the OLPC context I think > that your interest in GUI programming of robots could make for some good > discussions. :-) Oh yes. I think that Raspberry Pi is great and inexpensive solution as an "add on" for advanced classes - as in CS, as well as in robotics - however it depends on external peripherals so it is not "all-in-one" solution. What makes OLPC amazing is its screen and in its second incarnation its touch-screen. Ui should be discussed, but it was always a work in progress. One thing that I find great those days is "Ubuntu for Android" and an idea that OLPC and RaspPI would benefit greatly being a blend of both. But there, I think it would be useful to open a discussion and see which OS blend would suit the best for future incarnations of OLPC concepts. my best Harv _______________________________________________ Research mailing list Research@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/research