A Water Drop Microscope for the XO Laptop
Posted by on March 27, 2012
Resumen en español al final del artículo Bill Tuk of OLPC-SF emailed to tell me about how, for years, he has been using a drop of water over the OLPC XO laptop camera aperture to convert it into a microscope. The technique saw a resurgence recently when Scientific American blogged about insect photographer Alexander Wild, [...]
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Cheap Bicycle Parts
Posted by on March 26, 2012
It Is Possible To Have ATV At Low-cost Rates Perhaps for all of you readers who are located inside the nations from the United states of america of The us and Australia are well accustomed with all the name of atv. Even so, this article is meant to offer some understanding about the ATVs to [...]
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Mommy Has Testicles!
Posted by on March 25, 2012
“I bet you didn’t know my mommy has testicles!” I bet you didn’t see this one coming, I’m thinking, as my precocious four-year-old daughter, E, my second born, bounces up to the man who I was hoping to become a new client. A father himself, he’s been dabbling in selling vegetables from his home garden [...]
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Classmate Tablet Running Android – Is this Intel’s Answer to the XO 3.0?
Posted by on March 23, 2012
Resumen en español al final del artículo After Archos announced its 9 ChildPad last week I did a bit of research to see which other products had recently been introduced in this space. It didn’t take long until I stumbled across this 70-second YouTube clip which shows off an Intel “Learning Series” tablet running Android: [...]
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Can You Please Retrieve My Bagel From Under the Bed?
Posted by on March 21, 2012
I don’t normally eat anything found under my bed. The vacuum cleaner can only reach so far. I also have two house cats, and that’s where they go to get a little R-and-R from my three kids. Plus I do have a kitchen stocked full with food found in usual places like the fridge or [...]
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A Month-Long EduTechDebate Focused on OLPC in Peru
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Resumen en español al final del artículo (Editor’s Note: This month’s articles over on EduTechDebate are focused on Peru’s OLPC project “Una Laptop por Niño”. We’ve extensively covered the project here on OLPC News and I also wrote a long EduTechDebate post about it after I visited it back in mid-2010. Now I’m closely following [...]
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Bicycle Cover
Posted by on March 20, 2012
Insure Your Electric Bicycle We know that in many parts of the world, electric bicycles is classified as ordinary bikes rather than motor vehicles. Therefore, when we are riding electric bicycles, we do not need a license and registration. Besides, there are no or few regulations and insurance of an electric bicycle and few people [...]
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Automatic backlight dimming on the OLPC XO-1.75
Posted by on March 18, 2012
Resumen en español al final del artículo Last week Martin Langhoff (OLPC Association’s Senior Software Architect and Technical Director) posted a short comment and photo over on Google+ describing his favourite XO-1.75 feature of the week. As it turns out OLPC added a light-sensor to the XO-1.75 and when the laptop detects that it’s in [...]
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Tags: Automatic, backlight, dimming, OLPC, XO1.75
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.
Posted by on March 16, 2012
Any of my mama friends who come across this post will probably meet it with a rolling of the eyes. I just recently hashed out this very issue over the course of several days. Following my whining, their loving comments, my venting, their loving comments, I came to a realization…my little boy is growing up. [...]
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Warehouse Fire in Peru Destroys Educational Materials and 40,000 XOs
Posted by on March 13, 2012
Resumen en español al final del artículo Last Thursday a fire in the warehouse of the Peruvian Ministry of Education in Lima destroyed 40,000 XOs, 21,000 other laptops, 6,000 solar panels, and countless other educational materials. The warehouse back in August 2010 According to the Peruvian Minister of Education Patricia Salas the total damages have [...]
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Tags: 40000, Destroys, educational, Fire, Materials, Peru, Warehouse
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