Talk:XO: The Children's Machine

Where can one buy a CM1 to use for development and testing?

Testing for education purpose

love to get one for testing, in particular, how teacher can use it to speed up students' learning, and the learning curve of using Linus and new softwares.

in near future, would hope to see other channel to purchase CM, in a much smaller order size, for eductional and non-profitable institutions.

Errors on this protected page

There are spelling/typing errors on this page, but it cannot be modified as the page is protected... Would it not be better to free up more pages on the OLPC wiki, and allow moderators to watch over them?

The main typo is "individuals certainly now know better" at the bottom of the page... Which I think should read "know no better".

Just an example, but I think the idea of wiki is to allow changes made in a sensible way by all users, unless they abuse the system.

--Tomhannen 05:52, 26 August 2006 (EDT)

Name Change from CM1 to 2B1

What is the official rationale for the swift name change from CM1 to 2B1?

- Could it be because 2B1 is pronounced "to be one"? I think it´s a nice name, with a nice meaning.

- I agree that the name has a nice ring to it, but frankly, given the global nature of the project, I am surprised to see a name chosen that is essentially an Anglocentric (albeit clever) play on words. To non-English speakers it will be little more than a random assortment of characters. Plus... What will the second revision be called? 2B2? It doesn't seem like a very forward-thinking name choice. I liked CM1 much better, but even that's based on a Roman alphabet. I know it's making mountains out of molehills, but if the project is truly about inclusion and universality, shouldn't the name be something more like ":-)" or just plain "1"? I'm making these suggestions only half in jest...

Tres bien, mais...

This sounds like a nice machine, and the idea is appropriate and timely. I wonder what planning is made for *using* these notebooks. Simply handing them out will not work -- a progressive and comprehensive teaching plan must be developed. Also, I think it should be tested in phases locally before it is deployed internationally. Finally, some should be made available for their current production cost and promoted so that funding sources such as governments can see these are real hardware not vaporware.

Humbly supportive,

--kubulai jdnash@alt-fw.org

Solar/wind power

I wonder if the machine has any mean to be powered by external batteries, or maybe a connector made to replace the battery could be used. Then, maybe some schools or individuals could get a solar panel (i suppose very small for the very little energy consumption) to power the machine. As soon as these computers begin to be distributed in places with no electric supply it could be a great benefit for the users to be provided with some cheap solar panels.

The machine was designed with this in mind. It will accept anything from 10 to 25 volts and is protected against reverse polarity wiring.

Links

This page needs to link to other Wiki pages. I am going to write a VoIP page, since I see that there isn't one, and then I found that I wouldn't be able to make this page link to it. Similarly for many other topics. Ed Cherlin 2006-9-8 18:07 GMT-07:00