[Noisebridge-discuss] Public access laptops

[Christie Dudley]

This is a fantastic idea.  I also think something like minicom and the
arduino tool would be handy for the hardware hacker who only uses one
occasionally.  However, I don't think having more than about 3 available
would be a good idea.  Maintaining and keeping tabs on a fleet of them would
be a pain.

Christie

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, aestetix aestetix <aestetix at gmail.com>wrote:

> Rubin and I were chatting last night about making craptops available for
> the public. Occasionally someone just wanders in, sees cool things going on,
> and wants to join in on IRC or do some basic web browsing, and there is no
> system available to them.
>
> Here is a potential solution we came up with. A lot of people have old
> laptop systems that we could convert into dumb terminals.... basically set
> them up with elinks, irssi, and a few other things (no need for a gui) for
> basic accessibility, and allow anyone to use them. You can do this with very
> cheap hardware, and it might be good for the community in general. If there
> are five people on laptops and one who wants to be but forgot theirs, they
> could just pick up a spare system and join the club.
>
> I'm thinking it would not be hard to make maybe a half dozen of these
> available. They do not have to be good, they don't even necessarily need to
> support wireless (although that would be a plus). We have a lot of other
> ideas involving this (including an account on pony for members to save
> projects), but I wanted to see what people thought of this first.
>
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