Hi
On 26.06.2014 18:00, Seb35 wrote:
After porting Kiwixi on Raspberry Pi, I presented the whole system during the inauguration of the new WMFR’s offices two weeks ago, and I present it this Saturday on a small hackfest for general public in my local hackerspace.
For these two events I’ve created a small poster mainly to appeal the public to this small device and explain the thing.
You can see on the photo that the system is entirely autonomous with the battery (about 7 hours of functionning with Wi-Fi), which is kind to walk with it even without power plug.
Poster (2xA5, in French, if you want the sources in SVG ask me): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_hors-ligne_2xA5.pdf
Photo of the device: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raspberry_Pi_with_a_battery.JPG
This move is a pretty important one for Kiwix :
* It allows to make Wikipedia "kiosk" wireless/wireline with a full copy of Wikipedia for less than 100 USD (HW costs). This can be done with only a small amount of tech. knowledge: have a look to the kiwix-plug page: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-plug
* This is the first step to make fully autonomous (disconnected of the power grid) WIFI hotspots. Development of a standardized solar powered solution will start soon under the name of "kiwix-solar".
So, thanks a lot to Seb35 for all his good work.
Emmanuel