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September 14, 2009

XO-1.5 Laptop Motherboard Examined and Explained by Bernie Innocenti

Filed under: Hardware — Charbax @ 5:37 pm

Posted at: http://www.olpcnews.com/laptops/xo15/detailed_xo_15_motherboard_vid.html

June 9, 2009

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Home Lab

Filed under: Display, Filmed by Charbax, HD videos, Hardware, Interviews, Tradeshows — Charbax @ 12:31 am

Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO and inventor of the Pixel Qi technology, explains more of how the Pixel Qi 3Qi screen works, shows us a bit of how she works with her screen technology in her home lab, testing the angular performance in the OLPC screen and tells how power consumption can be saved further with a few motherboard modifications to behave like the OLPC laptop (turning off the processor and motherboard when they are not needed) and more.

(Youtube is still processing this 10 minute long HD quality video, it should be up in a few minutes in low quality and a couple of hours in HD quality)

June 1, 2009

OLPC XO 1.5 in Taipei Part 3: Chris Ball, Lead Software Engineer

Filed under: Design, Filmed by Charbax, HD videos, Hardware, Interviews, OLPC Staff — Charbax @ 6:59 pm

Chris Ball, OLPC Lead Software Engineer shows a fully working demonstration of the latest XO 1.5 motherboard fresh from the lab, runing a new faster Sugar Linux OS as well as multi-booting into a full Gnome desktop version of Fedora thanks to the increased storage, processing and RAM, the children will be able to boot a full Linux desktop as well running conventional desktop applications such as Open Office.

OLPC XO 1.5 in Taipei Part 2: Mitch Bradley and Richard Smith

Filed under: Design, Filmed by Charbax, HD videos, Hardware, Interviews, OLPC Staff — Charbax @ 6:57 pm

Mitch Bradley, OLPC Firmware Lead and President and CTO of FirmWorks and Richard Smith OLPC Director of Embedded Engineering talk about their work in bringing the One Laptop Per Child XO 1.5 motherboard up to fully working for Quanta to switch over the mass manufacturing of OLPC XO laptops to the version 1.5, until OLPC releases the XO 2 based on ARM sometime later when the correct components and software become available.

OLPC XO 1.5 in Taipei Part 1: John Watlington

Filed under: Design, Filmed by Charbax, HD videos, Hardware, OLPC Staff, Tradeshows — Charbax @ 6:53 pm

John Watlington, Vice President Hardware Engineering at One Laptop Per Child, shows us the latest status of the XO 1.5 project at a Hotel room in Taipei where team of hardware and software engineers from OLPC are working with Quanta and others to get the XO 1.5 version released in the next few months.

Mitch Bradley shows and explains Open Firmware

Filed under: Design, Filmed by Charbax, HD videos, HD videos, Hardware, Interviews, Software — Charbax @ 6:30 pm

Mitch Bradley, One Laptop Per Child Firmware Lead, shows and explains why the Open Firmware that he created is useful and important not only for the OLPC project but used and important for many other parts of the industry.

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