I made a little app and set up one of the old One Laptop Per Child computers to show the next five upcoming omni events in the next 24 hours.

The idea is to mount it on the outside of omni as a sort of menu of the day's upcoming events :)

The OLPC laptop is good for this because it has a special screen that turns reflective when there's lots of light. It is fully readable both at night and in the harshest California sun.

Here's a photo:

  https://imgur.com/wRLir3a

Here's the little web app (it's formatted for the smaller OLPC display):

  https://omnicommons.org/events-olpc/

Here's the code and write-up:

  https://github.com/sudoroom/omni-olpc-events

Now we just need a box with a thick layer of transparent acrylic to house it. Anyone up for making one?

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marc/juul