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minus-square@LemmyKnowsBestlink32•10 months agoa village with no modern technology. How did they keep the tablets charged?
minus-squareGreatAlbatrosslinkfedilinkEnglish17•edit-210 months agoOLPC’s latest trial in DIY education involved delivering Motorola Xoom tablets and solar chargers with custom software to two remote rural villages in Ethiopia where literacy rates are close to zero.
minus-squareNorah - She/TheylinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoI wouldn’t even count early computers as modern technology. If it took up an entire room, that’s not really modern.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months agoEvery morning at 4am, the village children wake up. With swatters in hand, they race into the memory banks, ready to debug the relays before the morning batch job is run.
minus-square@jaybonelink1•10 months agoThey just made it smaller and faster. All the same principles apply.
minus-square@LemmyKnowsBestlink2•10 months agohttps://feddit.uk/comment/6006965 They were given solar chargers with the tablets.
a village with no modern technology. How did they keep the tablets charged?
OLPC’s latest trial in DIY education involved delivering Motorola Xoom tablets and solar chargers with custom software to two remote rural villages in Ethiopia where literacy rates are close to zero.
Maybe they had electricity
Electricity is pretty old
I wouldn’t even count early computers as modern technology. If it took up an entire room, that’s not really modern.
Ethiopian village running a mainframe
Every morning at 4am, the village children wake up. With swatters in hand, they race into the memory banks, ready to debug the relays before the morning batch job is run.
They just made it smaller and faster. All the same principles apply.
So are computers
https://feddit.uk/comment/6006965 They were given solar chargers with the tablets.