{"id":25586,"date":"2009-10-13T00:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T04:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=117816"},"modified":"2009-10-13T00:30:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T04:30:04","slug":"pedal-power-in-the-desert-olpc-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/25586","title":{"rendered":"Pedal power in the desert: OLPC in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/afghan-crank.jpg\" alt=\"afghan-crank\" title=\"afghan-crank\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117821\" \/>One of the issues with the OLPC project has always been power. There&#8217;s just not electricity in all the parts of the world where the OLPC is intended to be used. There is a solution available, however, and it&#8217;s being tested in Afghanistan. We have just seen pictures of the first pedal power conversion for the OLPC.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a prototype, but it&#8217;s looking promising. The builders have created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olpcnews.com\/countries\/afghanistan\/updates_from_olpc_afghanistan_1.html\">pedal power alternative to the hand cranks<\/a> used on the standard OLPC, and it definitely makes sense to do so. The human body can certainly pedal easier then it can a crank, and the creators of the modification have stated that it&#8217;s easy enough to use that a 3rd or 4th grader can power it. Might be hard to type while you&#8217;re doing that, but at least you&#8217;ll have a full charge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/SbYnaSpxDgTRmIMUHZmWIqK0H5w\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/SbYnaSpxDgTRmIMUHZmWIqK0H5w\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/SbYnaSpxDgTRmIMUHZmWIqK0H5w\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/SbYnaSpxDgTRmIMUHZmWIqK0H5w\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=D_vyD7B0gts:cO71dC_-kDI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=D_vyD7B0gts:cO71dC_-kDI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=D_vyD7B0gts:cO71dC_-kDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=D_vyD7B0gts:cO71dC_-kDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=D_vyD7B0gts:cO71dC_-kDI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the issues with the OLPC project has always been power. There&#8217;s just not electricity in all the parts of the world where the OLPC is intended to be used. There is a solution available, however, and it&#8217;s being tested in Afghanistan. We have just seen pictures of the first pedal power conversion for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}