<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM, John Watlington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:48 PM, John Watlington <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I would like to announce that Gary Chiang has joined OLPC as<br>
> a contractor, working on hardware development and teaching<br>
> repair procedures. Gary is no stranger to the project, having<br>
> worked on all OLPC laptops while at Quanta Computer, Inc.<br>
> He has the distinction of having worked on OLPC hardware for<br>
> longer than anyone else, starting with Mark Foster early in the<br>
> XO-1 development!<br>
><br>
> Gary will be based out of Taipei for now, and can be reached<br>
> at <a href="mailto:gary@laptop.org">gary@laptop.org</a>.<br>
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> Welcome Gary!<br>
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> I'm particularly enticed by what your plans are when it comes to teaching<br>
> repair procedures.<br>
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</div>[This is meant to be in addition to Gary's reply]<br>
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Gary has literally been "the guy who teaches the factory how to<br>
fix the motherboards". He spent over a week in Uruguay teaching<br>
them both the basic manual skills and techniques for repairing SMD<br>
PCB repair and specific debugging techniques for the XO-1 motherboard.<br>
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In terms of scaling him up, we should probably dedicate a video crew<br>
next time he does this. The current approach works only for the<br>
larger deployments --- but the tools and parts needed aren't necessarily<br>
cost effective for smaller deployments.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, a video guide is certainly a great idea.</div><div><br></div><div>Additionally I'd accompany it with written guides with lots of photos which are great for printing out and bringing along when you're in the field or simply offline.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Compiling a list of required equipment for these repairs might also be useful. While small deployments might not have the resources to obtain this equipment themselves having such a list could probably go a long way in helping them find partners at companies or universities which could give them access to their labs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Christoph</div></div><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>