I see several post on here that talk about how we've been able to do this for quite some time now. I can think of several other devices that do the same thing as what this guy made.
This kind of thing is really good to push onto people that do not have the technical prowess to make their own, or at least follow some instructions on making your own.
As others have said, any real geek would just buy the cheap router, load custom open source software, and do exactly what he did for a lot less.
I see several post on here that talk about how we've been able to do this for quite some time now. I can think of several other devices that do the same thing as what this guy made.
Yep, just like the Aptus Classroom Without Walls [col.org] (sorry, PDF only - not my site) or any one of a dozen other attempts at this.
I am right at this moment putting together the ground work to deliver tablets and computers to some of the most remote areas in the developing world, and we've been looking very carefully at this kind of stuff. Right now, we're leaning heavily toward just reappropriating the software and using better hardware. The big problem with this kind of server-in-a-dongle is that, although it'
The "library" is a selection of starter content from archive.org, project gutenberg, and openly licensed content from other sources (Cory Doctorow's corpus, for example). The content itself is largely secondary to the project, and my expectation has always been that people are putting their own set of content on their Librarybox. With that said, I am working to find interesting educational content, and have talked with Project RACHEL (http://rachel.worldpossible.org/) which works very well on a LibraryBox. I would love to be able to provide "content packs" of educational content for various levels and uses.
With the new codebase release, I'll work on getting a listing of the default contents up on the website.
With that said, I am working to find interesting educational content, and have talked with Project RACHEL (http://rachel.worldpossible.org/) which works very well on a LibraryBox. I would love to be able to provide "content packs" of educational content for various levels and uses.
Interesting. We're evaluating RACHEL too.
But please do give some thought to performance. It's underrated as an issue.
Most people - even many of my colleagues - think that something, anything is better than nothing. And that's true, as far as it goes. Our immediate challenge is getting broadband internet to a part of the world that doesn't have any automation whatsoever, unless you count horses. It's quite remarkable the lengths they're willing to go to in order to see their children's lives improved. But i
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We aren't the target audience... (Score:0)
I see several post on here that talk about how we've been able to do this for quite some time now. I can think of several other devices that do the same thing as what this guy made.
This kind of thing is really good to push onto people that do not have the technical prowess to make their own, or at least follow some instructions on making your own.
As others have said, any real geek would just buy the cheap router, load custom open source software, and do exactly what he did for a lot less.
Heck, we could just
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I see several post on here that talk about how we've been able to do this for quite some time now. I can think of several other devices that do the same thing as what this guy made.
Yep, just like the Aptus Classroom Without Walls [col.org] (sorry, PDF only - not my site) or any one of a dozen other attempts at this.
I am right at this moment putting together the ground work to deliver tablets and computers to some of the most remote areas in the developing world, and we've been looking very carefully at this kind of stuff. Right now, we're leaning heavily toward just reappropriating the software and using better hardware. The big problem with this kind of server-in-a-dongle is that, although it'
Re:We aren't the target audience... (Score:1)
Wikipedia text is 40 GB (Score:2)
A recent article noted that the full text of Wikipedia is 40 GB. With a 64 GB or larger stick, you could have Wikipedia and a lot more.
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With that said, I am working to find interesting educational content, and have talked with Project RACHEL (http://rachel.worldpossible.org/) which works very well on a LibraryBox. I would love to be able to provide "content packs" of educational content for various levels and uses.
Interesting. We're evaluating RACHEL too.
But please do give some thought to performance. It's underrated as an issue.
Most people - even many of my colleagues - think that something, anything is better than nothing. And that's true, as far as it goes. Our immediate challenge is getting broadband internet to a part of the world that doesn't have any automation whatsoever, unless you count horses. It's quite remarkable the lengths they're willing to go to in order to see their children's lives improved. But i