Roving VI Shots corespondent and LAVA member Justin Goeres participated in the “buy one get one” program that the OLPC foundation announced last year. This is where you spend $400 and you donate one laptop to a child in an impoverished nation and in return you get one laptop for yourself.
I caught up with him and got his feedback on the unit. One thing I learned was that it ships with an application called TurtleDraw. This little app is great for teaching programming in a graphical way. If you’re thinking LabVIEW here, well, take a look and judge for yourself.
Nice…
It’s been quite a long time since I’ve worked with Logo. Maybe I should look for something online.
News Update: It looks like the OLPC give one get one program will be started up again soon according to this Engadget post:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/olpc-unveils-first-prototype-of-xo-2-0/
In the same post it describes the next generation of XO laptop. Neat. Here’s a post with a video:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20