February 2007 Archive

The One Laptop Per Child project is an incredible idea. Design and build a laptop for under $100, and send it out to the third world. I’ve been intermittently following the project for a few years. As of now, the hardware has been made, and beta units of the XO are being shipped.

It’s incredibly interesting from a design perspecitve - from the ruggedisation (no HDD!), mesh networking to the user interface.

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New cover. We’ll it’s not been Halloween for a few months now, so it was about time for an update. A bit different this time, using 3 open-source (read ‘free’) graphics software packages, Inkscape, Blender and The Gimp pretty much for the first time (although I’ve written about them before). …[more]