the OLPC

Discussions with Yann LeCun (NYU) and Jon Barron (NYU) got me excited again about my project to produce planetarium software for the One Laptop Per Child project. My planetarium is a totally human-readable, child-hackable, ascii python executable. And it is fast to compensate for the slow hardware. That said, the OLPC is the best possible platform for field support for amateur and student observing.