Hi all<br><br>Another link that could be of interest on this:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Mel Chua <<a href="mailto:mel@laptop.org">mel@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Gautam,<br>
<br>
I don't "assign" anyone projects (after all, one of the neat things<br>
about volunteering on an open-source project is that you get to pick<br>
what you want to work on), but I can point you towards some open<br>
hardware-related projects that may be of interest - you may also have<br>
your own ideas of what would be fun and useful to work on.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure</a> - the Activity that graphs data from<br>
the analog-in port. Simple, well-documented add-ons and activities (see<br>
the page for some examples) are always welcome.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TeleHealth_Hardware" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TeleHealth_Hardware</a> - a project to do basic<br>
health monitoring (USB sensor input for things like blood oxygen level,<br>
EKG, etc.)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_projects" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_projects</a> - another list of known open<br>
projects various people in the community would like work done on.<br>
<br>
Ccing the devel list in case the community-at-large has some thoughts on<br>
this - I've also cc'd Arjun, developer of the Measure activity, Ian, one<br>
of the people behind the TeleHealth Hardware project, and Richard,<br>
OLPC's hardware engineer, on this email in case they have any ideas.<br>
Also copying Andrew, who is looking into simple sensor input board designs.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
-Mel<br>
<br>
gautam hans wrote:<br>
> THANKS MEL,<br>
><br>
> But actually we wanted to you to give us some projects( or problems<br>
> olpc is facing) based on embedded and hardware electronics.<br>
><br>
> Our organization works on electronics embedded as well as hardware.<br>
><br>
> And I've seen that u also have some projects which you give to various<br>
> organizations to complete.<br>
><br>
> We would like you to give some of these projects.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Mel Chua <<a href="mailto:mel@laptop.org">mel@laptop.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mel@laptop.org">mel@laptop.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Greetings, Gautam.<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your interest in starting up a campus chapter - it is<br>
> one of the most useful ways for students to get immediately involved.<br>
><br>
> The way most university groups have done this is to start a club<br>
> (or community service group) at their school that can serve as an<br>
> umbrella for the different activities that the chapter does.<br>
> There's not a lot of structure - no registration, no forms to fill<br>
> out, no "official" list of chapters (though the<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_chapters" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_chapters</a> page is a good place<br>
> to list yourselves) - it's about the kinds of things the student<br>
> body (and faculty and staff) at your school are interested in<br>
> doing and the types of things you're keen on helping with.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots</a> may also be of<br>
> interest, as well as the #olpc-groups channel on IRC<br>
> (<a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a> <<a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">http://irc.freenode.net</a>> - see<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IRC" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IRC</a>). In general, grassroots groups are<br>
> very (one could accurately say "completely") independent of<br>
> OLPC-the-nonprofit-organization, and define their own long-term<br>
> projects and in some cases even create their own deployments. The<br>
> "scratch your own itch" mentality is alive and well here.<br>
><br>
> Since you said you were interested in hardware development, one<br>
> thing you may want to look into the Developers' program,<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program</a>, which is where you<br>
> can ask to borrow machines to do hardware development on. What<br>
> type of hardware development are you interested in? Most<br>
> developers don't actually need XO machines - you can run Sugar on<br>
> an emulator, or hack the kernel on a regular computer, just fine.<br>
> It's mostly for things like firmware, power management, and mesh<br>
> testing that "real" machines are needed.<br>
><br>
> If you have any specific questions, please feel free to ask - you<br>
> can email me, ask on the channel or the mailing list above - it's<br>
> a friendly community and we all love new people.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> -Mel<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
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