[UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

[Kevin Gordon]

Adam, we tried silicon over the slot applied from the inside, not glue.
 :-)  Cards fail, and removing them once the case is off, without causing
damage, was also a 'use case'.

What ended up being a more reliable method to prevent theft, was not using
micro-SD's in adapters, but only full size cards.  Then, one educates the
students that the cards have great value in the machines, and because of
their size and 'formatting', virtually zero use outside of them.  Manually
monitoring the machines state also works when they are used mainly in
classroom settings and are 'assigned' to specific students.  Very few of
our user base have the ability to quickly take a case apart, or know how to
repartition cards that use unix file systems.  Since there are also few
devices in the environment which can take a native full size card, the
trouble to steal them, is usually more than it's worth.

Depending on your user stories, to quote the vernacular, your mileage may
vary.

KG



On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> As many thousands of SD cards are now being considered to be retrofit into
> legacy XO's, in quite exciting new experiments with content-packed OS's,
> Kevin Gordon is way ahead of us all as usual:
>
> What glues do people recommend, to reduce temptation from young kids who
> fidget/grab anything they can?
>
> Can we come up with the best glues/brand-names/techniques to mitigate this
> very real problem, that small objects wander off, in small hands especially?
>
> Also a somewhat more permanent glue is desired by many schools I talk to,
> who face a very real risk of overt theft, as 32GB or 64GB SD cards
> represent a week or a fortnight's salary for a teacher/janitor in many of
> the countries where we work :-(
>
> The equivalent in NYC (where an increasing number of teachers are paid
> $100,000+/year) might be to leave $4000 gold coins on every student's desk,
> and to very naively/pretentiously expect none will walk :-)
>
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