mesh networking overview in red hat magazine
by Christopher Blizzard
Dan Williams, John Palmieri and Miguel Alvarez talk about the mesh networking in the laptop. They talk about the low level connectivity bits as well as the higher level set of activities and architecture that we’re building. Great job guys!
Download this video: [Ogg Theora]
Video by Simple Coat.
Produced by Julie Bryce and Kristin Hondros.
Excellent! The pervasiveness of the social features of the XO are highlighted very well in this video. The mesh network is the technology enabling this but the real story is the community and culture that the technology enables. I love the comments towards the end of different ways that two peole can collaborate over something as simple as reading a book in an XO activity!
Why NC-ND?
[...] 1. I found this post and movie on Chris Blizzard’s blog to be quite inspiring. It’s about the “One Laptop per Child” project at the MIT Media lab — specifically, it’s about the laptop’s mesh networking features, but it includes lots of good footage of the laptop itself and a bit of its software interface. The more I see about the OLPC, the more I catch myself feeling like an apeman who’s stumbled out of the woods and beheld civilization. I look at my software (Windows XP) and hardware and way of living with technology, blink slowly, and wonder “why am I all covered with shit?” [...]