Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OLPC

[Marcus Leech]

Robert McGwier wrote:

> This is sent with my OLPC.  What a great idea this project is.   It
> goes to show what can be acccomplished ny dedicated individuals,
> something familiar to a lot of people in these two groups.
>
> The thing does appear to have sufficient horsepower to do some DSP.
> I would like to think we can make several things available to this
> project.  For example, I think a tunable HF receiver for shortwave AM
> broadcast is easiy achievable for very modest cost. Further out, I
> would to see the use of this machine and OFDM skywave to provide WAN
> capability to large areas of the world without such capability.
>
> At least one Negroponte clearly has heart and vision.
>
> Happy holidays and I hope everyone is looking forward to 2008 with as
> much anticipation as I am.
>
> Bob
>
>
>  
Bob:

I've been thinking along those same lines as well.

I actually am spending about 50% of my time doing security development 
for the OLPC (Nortel
 is a sponsor of OLPC, and through some internal deals, I got to spend 
50% of my time on
 OLPC for the last several months).

I did do some paper-tiger designs for a simple front-end to the audio 
subsystem for HF reception.
 But I was told my time was better spent on other things...

--

Marcus Leech                            Mail:   Dept 1A12, M/S: 04352P16
Security Standards Advisor        Phone: (ESN) 393-9145  +1 613 763 9145
Strategic Standards
Nortel Networks                          address@hidden