The genius is it soluble in comfort? This might suggest that the many examples of inventiveness that have been reported outside the OLPC project. Thus, we learn that members of the program OLPC Afghanistan have designed and implemented a prototype of "pedalo XO responsible for producing the energy needed to power the XO computer.

Pedal for XO - OLPC Afghanistan

This realization, or the device bicycle-generator-battery powering XO laptops in a school in Uruguay (" the Transformando energía mecánica eléctrica in "), inevitably evokes the mythical handle, still associated with the first prototypes of the XO. This accessory was eventually abandoned because of its inadequacy. A paddleboat in Afghanistan, a crank in the labs of MIT, a micro-turbine in the village of Madagascar Antitorona on the island of Nosy Komba , or solar panels, as San Mahen , Sierra Leone: what are some The ideas more or less successful, that we owe to the OLPC project or associated with him.

Solar panels and XO San Mahen (Sierra Leone)

Clearly, there is ingenuity in these creations. But how many other geniuses anonymous and unrecognized countries "in development" they contain? For it is well understood that inventiveness is not unique to the XO computer, as a shining example of the young William Kamkwamba in Malawi, which has designed and built wind turbines in a context of extreme poverty, and whose the term "typical-atypical led to the story" The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind ".

Even if no strict determinism between the possession or use of technology such as the XO and the educational benefits that can be drawn, it appears that the learning platform was designed to foster creative and critical attitude among its young users.

An educational platform hackable

The OLPC project has indeed entered the ingenuity among its principles. The cleverness is that of users of the education platform designed to be robust, green and open. Users are encouraged to compete and intellectual boldness to make the most of their XO and the use of the constraints imposed by the lack of adequate infrastructure and, too often, the most acute deprivation.

Hence, different devices and equipment have been devised to accompany the XO computer. We find a list on the OLPC wiki page devoted to devices , they are intended to inform the XO power or to ensure its connectivity with the rest of the world. Other projects were undertaken to address these needs through a solution "but an" as that achieved by the project Labomobile and Green-Fi in Senegal.

Other creations, just as original, continues to emerge from the creative minds of their designers, such as robotic 3D printer RepRap . This can be enlisted to manufacture in series of other accessory, the viewfinder of the camera of the XO.

Viewfinder XO / RepRap

Nothing frivolous, either, in this design of an electro-cardiogram (draft OLPC Golden State ).

Finally, the day your XO will pass on the "pool" after any failure, repair it yourself or have it repaired at a local repair center. Join us for this, near Paris, in / tmp / lab .

Repair shop in / tmp / lab (Paris)

Too far from home? Never mind, move closer to other Repair Centers , or create one yourself ( How to start a repair center )!

Conclusion

The future belongs to you, simply invent Happy Hacking!