Solitude and remoteness is a blessing in this thickly populated world, but at the same time it becomes curse, to be isolated, if there is no means of communication available, especially in demanding conditions.
If you belong to such far-flung or hard terrain where communication still is a big problem, you may put your worries to rest.
To provide the remote community of Bourem Inaly access to new information and communications tools, IESC Geekcorps staff and volunteers in Mali have designed a Desert PC that may resist a high heat, high dust, low electricity situation as well.
Funded by USAID Mali, composed by using off-shelf hardware components and free, open source software, the Desert PC is an innovative sealed, fanless system based on VIA Technologies’ Mini-ITX form factor that also features a temperature twitter for passive cooling, a solid disk to reduce moving parts, and a Linux distribution. The new PC usually consumes only 35 watts or less of powering in comparison to 300 watts that regular computers consume, means low power consumption.
However, the cost of the Desert PC can be $300 more than regular computer but it devour much less electricity that may help to cut down its operational cost. High cost is hardly a hindrance until it connects remote areas to other parts of the world.
Via: geekcorps
