Hacking your XO

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Customizing the language

Machines come with a localized keyboard and a country code in the manufacturing data; the latter determines what language interfaces are in. Changing this in the appropriate config file is straightforward.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/Changing_Keyboard_Layout

Customizing your wireless experience

  • You can make your XO a mesh portal.

Hacking your case

  • Stickering and tagging
  • You can convert a B into a C machine or later with tweezers and a screwdriver.

Hacking Sugar

  • make the mouse more sensitive
  • remap the keys in ebook mode
              -  http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1437.0

Hacking your antennae

  • Making a directional antenna