The OLPC Solar charger started working this morning, the 8W solar panel started charging the OLPC without an issue. The power controller which regulates the power input to the OLPC is simple enough to be assembled with locally available electronics.
The OLPC solar charger is developed at BWB Center of Social Innovation. Keep watching this space for more updates on this project.
Most action happens on conference sidelines PyCon India 2009 is no expection. You can always watch the recordings of talks later on. Catching up with friends comes first. Sharing ideas about projects, events and just talking all things geek. Good to hear that Santhosh was interested about integrating dhvani with speech dispatcher for Orca screen reader. Sharing experiences of working with non-profits with Sayamindu and talking about accessibility issues on OLPC SUGAR. And exploring possibilities of doing Ubuntu Karmic release parties in Chennai and Bangalore with Parthan (technofreak), Renuka and Debayan.
I did catch few of the lectures of Ramakrishna on Enterprise Linux, Parthan and the presentation by the FOSSEE team.
Parthan Python newbie talk
The Mallu Gang ! 
Praveen shows his Android G2
Baij T-shirt with topsy turvy logo
What's Reappy ? 
Jinesh checking out Samsung mobile (Q2?)
Hiran hacking my T-shirt with a pen :)
The Food was Good! 
Where are the crowds ? Ah! 75 students took off to see the city! 
Prabhu Ramchandran charms the crowds
The feedback ! 
Day 4 @ foss.in 2008
IndLinux Project BOF
Beacon Workout
Sharing ideas after Apertium talk
Sachin Joshi demo's his Hindi ASR system
Connecting the FreeRunner with an USB cable and reseting it to boot from NOR
dfu-util in action
Just Messing Around ! 
Few more OLPC XO's sighted 
External USB sound card ( look at scheme diagram)
Aasim tries his hand at DJing
Ramki nails another victim 
Don't wanna sing! Last year I blogged in OLPC XO Production Delays, Microsoft Monster Catches Up about on the plans to run a Microsoft Windows OS on OLPC XO laptop something like this.
Yeah right, I guess a thousand slaves are working in dark dungeons trying to squeeze the Windows XP white elephant into the XO. :0)
It now seems that they are on the final stages of completing this Herculean technical feat according to this OLPC News story.
I guess its the end of the OLPC project. So long folks!.
This tiny and unusual computer was demoed at the monthly meeting of ILUG-Goa, the Free Software and Open Source user group that meets at the Goa Science Centre in Miramar, last Saturday (Jan 26, 2008).
Ms. Rut Pinto Viegas Jesus, a Copenhagen-based PhD researcher of Goan-Portuguese ancestry, managed to bring down one model of the computer, while visiting Goa on holiday and a family visit to her relations in Santa Cruz and Salcete.
The 4000-rupee computer shows up in Goa
