[OLPC Networking] MANET & Music !

[Krishna Sankar]

Too coincidental! I am thinking about couple of music ideas - one for sync play, another just a good multimedia app for the children to experience music ... We really liked the music book in leappad ! 
a)Can you point me to the TamTam folks ? Would be happy to collaborate on this problem 

b) Have you approached the Leappad folks to seek some collaborative efforts ?

Cheers
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Gettys [mailto:jg at laptop.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:14 AM
> To: Krishna Sankar
> Cc: Networking at laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [OLPC Networking] MANET
> 
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:47 -0500, Krishna Sankar wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > 	Have been reading the mesh networking posts with 
> interest. Some random observations.
> > 
> > 	a)	Like Ivan points out, we should treat the OLPC 
> mesh as a special case of sensor networking, as power 
> awareness would be the main priority. This was my first 
> thought as I was reading thru the archives.
> > 
> > 	b)	There are also time sync algorithms in the 
> sensor networking world that might be applicable - but I do 
> not think we need very accurate, monotonic time. 
> > 
> 
> Actually, we do need good time sync algorithms.
> 
> We had a demo of a wonderful music application (called 
> TamTam) yesterday.
> 
> We want the kids to be able to play music together, well synchronized.
> 
> We'll get much better synchronization between the machines 
> during a performance if they have good synchronized clocks 
> than if TamTam tries to work around the lack of such 
> synchronization, by sending packets, which will often be 
> delayed in the mesh.
>                                       - Jim
> 
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> Jim Gettys
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