Peter Pinch's Page

My kids and I have access to a pair of XO laptops, from the One Laptop Per Child program at the MIT media lab. I'd seen & held one before, so I knew what to expect from the physical form factor. We've since been coming to terms with the software.

So far, my kids favorite "activity" (new jargon -- something like a combination of application and file) has been TamTamSynth, which lets you make weird sounds (most of the time) and Measure, which is basical…