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minus-square@LemmyKnowsBestlink32•1 year agoa village with no modern technology. How did they keep the tablets charged? arrow-up132arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareGreatAlbatrosslinkfedilinkEnglish17•edit-21 year 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. arrow-up117arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•1 year agoMaybe they had electricity arrow-up112arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•1 year agoElectricity is pretty old arrow-up117arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-squareNorah (pup/it/she)linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoI wouldn’t even count early computers as modern technology. If it took up an entire room, that’s not really modern. arrow-up16arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoEthiopian village running a mainframe arrow-up15arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year 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. arrow-up14arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@jaybonelink1•1 year agoThey just made it smaller and faster. All the same principles apply. arrow-up11arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_Inlink1•1 year agoSo are computers arrow-up11arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@LemmyKnowsBestlink2•1 year agohttps://feddit.uk/comment/6006965 They were given solar chargers with the tablets. arrow-up12arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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.