Raspberry Pi at the library

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"The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming."

What if the public library circulated these little gems? Or would it be better to offer them within the library walls, so that people could network them together?

Bobby Burden from Delegator had an interesting idea... he suggested using Raspberry Pis, a Wi-Fi adapter, and a cheap case to build a hardware platform and linux distribution to facilitate a "dark net"-style mesh network.

What would you do?

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