[support-gang] [UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops

[Kevin Gordon]

On NCR's idea ... A little caveat .... One must be very very careful of the
read-only tab lock when messing 'directly'  with adapters and cards
though.  They are a feces show to begin with, and if you need to r/w on the
little beasts, small physical changes can mess up the r/w function, even if
not physically, sometimes their alignment.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:38 AM, <nathanr333 at charter.net> wrote:

> Adam,
>
> My suggestion is a variation of Kevin's.   Adhesive strip on SD card
> (exposed 1/8 th inch).  This would require removing XO back to remove strip
> /card.
>
> Second variation:  jam lock/unlock tab.  There is a slot in the card
> holder metal can.   Inserting a small plastic piece (tape in place) will
> block the tab so SD card can not be removed..
>
> Nathan
>
> -----------------------------------------
> From: "Kevin Gordon"
> To: "Adam Holt"
> Cc: "Unleash Kids!", "Devel's in the Details", "Community Support
> Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org"
> Sent: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:48:53 -0400
> Subject: Re: [support-gang] [UKids] Glueing SD cards into XO laptops
>
> 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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