MHP to laptop interface possibility
This is just a placeholding page at present.
I am hoping to post a link to this page in the forum in the http://www.mhp.org webspace and need an address to which to link.
The post mentioned above is at the following place.
http://www.mhp.org/forum/forum.xml?forum=10&thread=82
Here is a transcript.
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The possibility of being able to send information to the laptops of the One Laptop per Child project using an MHP broadcasting system is potentially a major application of the MHP system.
I had previously been thinking that this would be using a standard MHP broadcasting system yet would require specially-built reception equipment.
I am now thinking that perhaps this could be a totally software task using a standard MHP broadcasting system together with an ordinary MHP terminal with facilities for what MHP terms the "interactive profile" with the "telephone call" being made using a cable to a laptop a few feet away: I am presently unsure whether that laptop would be a standard laptop from the project or whether a special version of the laptop would be needed.
I remember reading somewhere that in America the telephone area code 555 is unused in systems and that telephone numbers to area code 555 can be used as telephone numbers stated in speech and in signage on the sides of vans and so on in television shows and movies. So maybe an MHP application could be allowed to send telephone messages to 555-1234. The so-called interactive profile of the MHP system is to allow a telephone message to be sent from an MHP television to anywhere, not necessarily back to the central broadcasting computer: for example, to a mail order company which is selling clothing advertised in a television programme. Here, the receiver of the telephone call would be just a few feet away, yet this could be a convenient way to get the information out of the MHP television to a laptop, from where it could be distributed to other laptops by the laptop network.
Would this work? The need would be for the MHP system to run a Java program, which had been broadcast, which Java program would be used to select files of data (which could be software for the laptop, electronic books and whatever) from the object carousel and send it as some form of "telephone message" to 555-1234.
Can this be achieved? I am not expert in the MHP system, though many people who read this forum are experts in the MHP system.
There is a page in the laptop wiki for discussion of this possibility.
http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/MHP_to_laptop_interface_possibility
Readers are welcome to participate either in this forum or in the wiki or in both as they choose.
Hopefully this interfacing can be achieved and MHP applied in support of the One Laptop per Child project.
The main page of the One Laptop per Child wiki is at the following page.
http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/Main_Page
The main page of the One Laptop per Child project is at the following page.
William Overington
30 April 2006
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