Wiring up: SEMOA dLEAP Project

Received this posting from the a local volunteer who is responsible for the physical wiring up of the  deployment site. dLEAP project is one of the coming many little deployments in "setting fires" that came about from basecamp@Malacca. A team will be visiting Malaysia in Easter for more followup. We will also implement the mLC (Mobile Learning Chest). This will flip the OLPC model a little :-)

Personally I am obsessed  to keep the OLPC heartbeats alive and strong. We are on a OLPC 2.0 journey track. XO4All

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A gotong royong  effort with volunteers from another organisation .... to lay the physical wiring.

"Here's the setup diagram and some rationale behind the design:
- Avoid mains voltage cabling (primarily wooden buildings)
- Centralized power conditioning (rural power swings 190V-265V)
- Remote & simplified management
- Able to cover large areas (deployment site is 1 acre+)

The TP-Link switch (SG3424P) provides power over the network cable so the access points (DAP2553) are wall mounted with just the network cable. The access points are clustered so configuring one configures the rest. Right now, the wireless covers about 400sqm and supports about 130 simultaneous device connections - far more than the poor DSL connection can manage. Centralized UPS provides voltage conditioning and battery backup for School server and network.

I've saved the config files for everything so if another deployment uses the same equip, the setup is about 10 minutes"  Eugene Khoo

8 Process Steps to start the Malaysia dLEAP deployment

 The dLEAP lauch was on Feb 22, 2014. A day earlier preparation was needed before to get things started.

Pictures tells a thousand words on what we did to get the deployment off the ground on the day itself. Feb 22, 2014 is a day to remember :-)

Deployment Step 1: Personalization of Sugar on XO 

Deployment Step 2: Login into Schoolserver via wireless AP 

Deployment Step 3: Check if all XO are connected to SchoolServer

Deployment Step 4: Registering the XO on the Schoolserver 

Deployment Step 5: Checking if registered and isolating the registered XO 

Deployment Step 6: Roll call using the Schoolserver Master XO 

Deployment Step 7: Let the fun begin, observe the children and what they do! 

Deployment Step 8: Check how the AP is performing and any complaints from children 

dLEAP Malaysia deployment preparation videos

Videos that capture the initial hour of preparation a day before the actual deployment launch. The children are involved in the process and not just a passive recipient of the XO.

1st video immediately after the schoolserver installation

Children as agent of change .... Malaysian kids unleased

Help and be helped video
Children as volunteers video

Accessing the XSCE 5 and its resources video.