[UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

[Adam Holt]

On Mar 21, 2016 10:48 AM, "Kevin Gordon" <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

What about gluing MicroSD's into its sleeve/converter that very often is
included in the original purchase?

Essentially building a full-size SD card out of a MicroSD.

Not our first choice, but the reason we are forced to consider this hack
(despite our distaste for sleeves/converters that sometimes fail) is that
full-size SD's are increasingly harder to procure --  as these are no
longer mass-market items: the increased price of full-size SD's can
(sometimes) destroy viability.

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