Participation in hardware development(OLPC)

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

Hi all

Another link that could be of interest on this:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org> wrote:

> Gautam,
>
> I don't "assign" anyone projects (after all, one of the neat things
> about volunteering on an open-source project is that you get to pick
> what you want to work on), but I can point you towards some open
> hardware-related projects that may be of interest - you may also have
> your own ideas of what would be fun and useful to work on.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure - the Activity that graphs data from
> the analog-in port. Simple, well-documented add-ons and activities (see
> the page for some examples) are always welcome.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TeleHealth_Hardware - a project to do basic
> health monitoring (USB sensor input for things like blood oxygen level,
> EKG, etc.)
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_projects - another list of known open
> projects various people in the community would like work done on.
>
> Ccing the devel list in case the community-at-large has some thoughts on
> this - I've also cc'd Arjun, developer of the Measure activity, Ian, one
> of the people behind the TeleHealth Hardware project, and Richard,
> OLPC's hardware engineer, on this email in case they have any ideas.
> Also copying Andrew, who is looking into simple sensor input board designs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Mel
>
> gautam hans wrote:
> > THANKS MEL,
> >
> > But actually we wanted to you to give us some projects( or problems
> > olpc is facing) based on embedded and hardware electronics.
> >
> > Our organization works on electronics embedded as well as hardware.
> >
> > And I've seen that u also have some projects which you give to various
> > organizations to complete.
> >
> > We would like you to give some of these projects.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Mel Chua <mel at laptop.org
> > <mailto:mel at laptop.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Greetings, Gautam.
> >
> >     Thanks for your interest in starting up a campus chapter - it is
> >     one of the most useful ways for students to get immediately involved.
> >
> >     The way most university groups have done this is to start a club
> >     (or community service group) at their school that can serve as an
> >     umbrella for the different activities that the chapter does.
> >     There's not a lot of structure - no registration, no forms to fill
> >     out, no "official" list of chapters (though the
> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_chapters page is a good place
> >     to list yourselves) - it's about the kinds of things the student
> >     body (and faculty and staff) at your school are interested in
> >     doing and the types of things you're keen on helping with.
> >
> >     http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots may also be of
> >     interest, as well as the #olpc-groups channel on IRC
> >     (irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> - see
> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IRC). In general, grassroots groups are
> >     very (one could accurately say "completely") independent of
> >     OLPC-the-nonprofit-organization, and define their own long-term
> >     projects and in some cases even create their own deployments. The
> >     "scratch your own itch" mentality is alive and well here.
> >
> >     Since you said you were interested in hardware development, one
> >     thing you may want to look into the Developers' program,
> >     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program, which is where you
> >     can ask to borrow machines to do hardware development on. What
> >     type of hardware development are you interested in? Most
> >     developers don't actually need XO machines - you can run Sugar on
> >     an emulator, or hack the kernel on a regular computer, just fine.
> >     It's mostly for things like firmware, power management, and mesh
> >     testing that "real" machines are needed.
> >
> >     If you have any specific questions, please feel free to ask - you
> >     can email me, ask on the channel or the mailing list above - it's
> >     a friendly community and we all love new people.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     -Mel
> >
> >
>
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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
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