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I have been lurking for a while hoping that I would eventually find some |
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time to create an embedded Linux, but time seems to have run out, and |
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now I need help. |
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I work for Baobab Health Partnership (www.baobabhealth.org) which builds |
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computer systems for hospitals and HIV clinics in Malawi. Malawi is one |
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of the poorest countries in the world, has 2 million HIV positive |
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people, and just 100 doctors in the entire country. Our system uses |
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touchscreen computers to help clinicians serve more people and make |
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fewer mistakes. |
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Our hardware is based on donated iOpener computers |
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(http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/iopener.php). These are x86 systems |
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with an integrated LCD screen, 32MB of memory and 16MB of flash disk |
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space. We add a touchscreen controller and a few other components to |
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complete our hardware. |
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At the moment we are adding on a second flash disk and boot into windows |
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98 to run some VB apps that we have created. This is not the best |
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solution. :-) |
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Our goal is to have a customized embedded Linux on the iopener. Besides |
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the obvious need of supporting the hardware, we also need it to run a |
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modern (Ajax capable) web browser. |
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Various people have already managed to get Linux running on the device |
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(http://m4i.homeip.net/) but nobody has come up with exactly what we |
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need. I understand the web browser may be difficult, but the good people |
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at Opera have already expressed an interest in helping us out in case we |
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need them. |
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We have fundraised some money for this project, so we will be able to |
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pay the implementer. Ideally the person will be near to Pittsburgh, |
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Pennsylvania so that he/she can spend some time with Gerry Douglas our |
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hardware hacker, but if not we can probably work something out. (Being |
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near Malawi would be even better but not very likely) |
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Please get in touch if you are interested. |
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Cheers, |
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Mike McKay |
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PS Here is a video of our current system in action (registering |
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patients) in case you are interested: |
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http://www.vdomck.org/~crazy/PatientRegistration.mov |
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