OLPC XO Hardware Developers Guide

• Goals

One Laptop Per Child, to begin with. Then education, jobs, new businesses, health, infrastructure, and everything else the people of the world need. Including the ability to talk to each other and work together on any project that seems worthwhile.

• User Requirements
  • Usable by illiterates (young and old)
  • No dependence on electric power grid; any renewable power source
  • Children can collaborate
  • Green
  • Optimum cost/benefit
  • All free drivers
• Process and standards
• Current design
• New features
  • Touch screen
  • Microscope
  • Periscope
  • GPS
  • WiMax
• Testing