Community Built E-ink Laptop Project
I’m a community organizer, educator, software engineer, hacktivist, and agent of social change.
My interests are in exploring community-building, social justice, education, and leveraging technology to address social problems.
In the past, I’ve worked as a labor rights organizer, a teacher, and I’m currently an Expert In Residence at Resilient Coders.
Alexander Soto
Project Lead
Core Team
We are EI-2030
- To generate interest in the idea of creating a laptop using non-emissive displays.
- To iterate, test ideas, document, and show our work.
- Create a crowdsource campaign after the successful creation of a minimum viable product.
- Bring the MVP to a manufacturer and build at scale.
Objectives
Working Groups
- Led by one or two people as leads.
- Defines a metric/cost for who the device is for.
- Working groups are time-boxed defined.
- A "template" provided for the working groups to start and self-organize.
Working Groups Contd.
- The working group documents its process in a designated website, forum, Github, a build log.
- Share resources/knowledge/material/monetary.
- Generate interest, share our work with others.
- Iterate, iterate and iterate.
Working Group:
PaperTop
Objective: The objective of the PaperTop is to explore creating an e-ink laptop using a Raspberry Pi 3B+, Pi-Top and an e-ink panel. Explore what other single board computers could be supported with the chasis. Explore what modifications could be done to the Pi-top and what is and is not possible.
PaperTop
PaperTop
PaperTop
Dasung Paperlike HD-FT
Challenges
Challenges
Our students spend 20 weeks with us, learning object-oriented programming principles, through the vehicle of full stack javascript; that's vanilla JS, React, Express, Node, and PostgreSQL.
Resilient Coders
Thank you!
