Madeline Kroah-Hartmanmadeline@kroah.com

OLPCFounded 2005

$100 computer for children

2006 price was raised

First laptops shipped 2007

Give 1 Get 1 Promotion

November 2007 $399 Sold over 83,000

2.5 million laptops shipped

Anti-theft system

Low power

Hand cranked power

YoYo charger

Solar Powered charging

Wind Belt charger

Uruguay 2007

Afghanistan

Ometepe, Nicaragua

Rwanda

Madagascar

India

OLPC software

● Based on Fedora Linux● “Sugar” interface● Developed for small children● Written in Python● Goals

– Reduce interface clutter– Limit controls to tasks relevant at the moment– Works on low resource machines

XO-1 Model

AMD processor

XO-2 Prototype

XO-3 Prototype

XO-1.5 Model

VIA processor

XO-4

TouchscreenARM Processor

XO-Tablet

XO-TabletSale to the public June 2013

XO-TabletAndroid based

How to Participate

● wiki.laptop.org/Participate● Translations needed

– 38% Japanese!– translate.sugarlabs.org

● Test software● Buy a laptop

Madeline Kroah-Hartmanmadeline@kroah.com

I'm going to talk abou the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC), what it's history is, and what it plans to do in the future.

I'll also show you a demo of the latest OLPC hardware and software interface.

OLPCFounded 2005

$100 computer for children

2006 price was raised

First laptops shipped 2007

The OLPC project started in 2005 with the goal of providing a $100 computer for children.

In 2006, the price was announced that it would be a bit higher due to manufacturing costs

First laptops shipped in 2007

Give 1 Get 1 Promotion

November 2007 $399 Sold over 83,000

Give 1 Get one promotion in winter 2007

Cost $399

Essentially the price was for two laptopsOne laptop for you, one for a child

Sold over 83,000

I got my first laptop through this program

2.5 million laptops shipped

There have been 2.5 million laptos shipped since 2007

Anti-theft system

All laptops have an anti-theft system that requires they “phone home” to the server every few days.

If this fails, the laptop is locked out.

This can be updated by USB stick owned by the teacher, instead of a network, for the countries with unreliable internet connections.

Low power

The laptops are very low power, lasting a school day with normal usage.

Processor stops between each keystroke, leaving the screen on, to conserve electricity.

Hand cranked power

This is a hand crank that attaches to a desk to recharge the laptop.

Costs $13

Has an LED that showes how fast it needs to be cranked.

Made by the same company that creates the crankable flashlights.

YoYo charger

Prototype of a YoYo charger that you pulled by hand.

Testers said it was painful to keep pulling after 10 minutes.

The laptop required you to pull this for 1 ½ hours to recharge it.

Was never distributed.

Solar Powered charging

Current method of recharging is by solar power.

Various solar panels are availble. Ranging from being able to recharge a laptop in 5 hours to 30 minutes.

Laptops can be plugged into the solar panels and still used at the same time.

Wind Belt charger

Other chargers that the OLPC foundation are considering is the Wind Belt charger.

It creates electricity from the vibrations generated when wind hits a ribbon.

This is still under development.

Uruguay 2007

Uruguay was first country to place an order in 2007

Since then, over 300,000 laptops have been given to children in this country for all school children between 6 and 12 years old.

First country to give a laptop to all of their children.

Afghanistan

Half of the OLPC schools in Afghanistan are for girls.

They have given 4,500 laptops to children.

The laptops have a dual Dari-Latin keyboard. All software is localized into Dari, and some is in Pashto as well.

Ometepe, Nicaragua

I live on an island outside of Seattle, and we have a sister island in Nicaragua called Ometepe.

In 2012, all students on the island of Ometepe got a OLPC laptop.

The fact that the screen can be easily seen in bright sunlight was key in choosing this laptop for the children.

Rwanda

Rwanda started in 2007, giving 10,000 students a laptop, and all citizens universal access to the Internet.

The program has grown since then, with over 100,000 laptops provided to children.

Madagascar

Madagascar also started providing laptops to children in 2007, giving them to their youngest students who learned to read and type with them.

They are also learning how to use and maintain their machines with their own laptop hospital.

India

After students in India received their XO laptops, their attendance rate have kept their attendance level at almost 100%.

Their teachers run weekly workshops inviting other teachers to come and work with their students to share new ideas.

OLPC software

● Based on Fedora Linux● “Sugar” interface● Developed for small children● Written in Python● Goals

– Reduce interface clutter– Limit controls to tasks relevant at the moment– Works on low resource machines

The sofware on the OLPC is an interface called “sugar” that runs on top of Fedora.

It is unlike anything you have ever used before on computers, and was designed specifically for small children.

It is all opensource, and written in Python.

The goals of it were to reduce the clutter of the screen and limit the tasks to only what can be done at the moment.

It works very well on not powerful machines.

You can run it on your own laptop with a bootable USB stick.

This is the main screen of the sugar interface.

The icons in the spiral around you are the different programs available to run.

This is the application that allows kids to measure how far away the laptops are from each other in meters.

This is an abikiss program, as I guess they still teach children how to use these.

This is one of the programming tools on the laptop, called eToys.

You program the car to drive around the screen.

This is a physics simulation, where you draw shapes on the screen and show how gravity and other forces affect them in real time.

This is a python language programming environment.

This is a ruler program that allows you to measure things from the edge of the laptop, or on the screen itself.

This is another programming environment called scratch that is a 2d animation system.

All laptops come with a local copy of Wikipedia, in the native language of the children for them to use.

There is also a word processing application for children to write papers with.

And if you really want to use the Linux command line interface, there is a terminal program included on the laptop as well.

XO-1 Model

AMD processor

AMD processorWireless

This is the model that I got

Very durable, very long battery life

XO-2 Prototype

After two years, a number of different prototypes were developed.

This is one that is all touchscreen, and folds in the middle with no real keyboard.

It was never produced.

XO-3 Prototype

This was another prototype of a tablet only model.

It looks like it will be released sometime this year.

XO-1.5 Model

VIA processor

This like the first version they released, but they upgraded the processor.

XO-4

TouchscreenARM Processor

Here is the latest version, I have a model here.

It is an ARM processor, and has a touchscreen. It will be shipping later this year.

XO-Tablet

This is the tablet that I talked about earlier.

It is the third generation of the OLPC.

XO-TabletSale to the public June 2013

It is planned to be sold at your local WalMart for $100.

Plans to ship it to children are very unclear, and not much is known about the durability of the tablet.

XO-TabletAndroid based

The software on the tablet is very different, based on Android, and will be loaded with a lot of education based applications.

Big into maps.

How to Participate

● wiki.laptop.org/Participate● Translations needed

– 38% Japanese!– translate.sugarlabs.org

● Test software● Buy a laptop