Simon Willison’s Weblog

bunnie’s blog: OLPC XO-1 (via) Bunnie Huang critiques the hardware design of the OLPC XO-1.

# 12th January 2008, 9:39 am / bunniehuang, olpc, xo1, hardware

A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions. I hadn’t realised how much competition OLPC faced from Microsoft and Intel’s Classmate. It would be amazing to see a generation grow up understanding that computers are open tools that they can control themselves rather than closed black boxes.

# 24th November 2007, 10:47 pm / olpc, microsoft, intel, open-source

OLPC Peru/Arahuay. A fascinating case study of the introduction of the XO to a school in Peru. It’s really exciting to see the project starting to make an impact.

# 28th September 2007, 11:56 pm / olpc, xo, peru

OLPC: Give 1 Get 1. The long rumoured “buy two OLPCs, donate one to the third world” scheme is actually happening. I plan to get one; the robustness, battery life and WiFi range should make for an excellent conference / outdoor machine.

# 24th September 2007, 11:07 am / olpc, charity, hardware, conferences

PyCon Day 1: OLPC Has Excited me. Did you know that the OLPC machines have a “show source” button?

# 23rd February 2007, 11:21 pm / olpc, python, pycon