Sorry everyone, my laptop charger broke Saturday night. I’m only using my laptop in fifteen minute intervals (I’m on my last battery with 60% left) to check emails related to the computer project, so I cannot take the time to update the blog. I’ll update it once I fix / get a new charger, which could be as soon as tomorrow.
The news is that the 945GSEJT motherboards have arrived at Tribhuvan International Airport here in Nepal, which is great: we’ll probably pick them up tomorrow. The cases and HDDs are in Hong Kong ready to be shipped to Nepal via air freight, the RAM will be sent from Shenzhen tomorrow, and the monitors I had custom built to specification are also ready; those will ship Wednesday once the company tests a few features.
Also note that I have rebooked my flight to Hong Kong to the 18th of December (it was previously the 6th of December), and canceled my (refundable) ticket to the US. Christmas in Hong Kong this year! This will give me a few days with each school to setup and make sure they know how to use the computers, which is essential to the long term success of this project. The goal is to put five computers in six schools, including battery backup systems and optional solar panels, depending off the school. Unless it is completely off-grid, they will not need the solar panels — however, I have been talking to the founder of the “Himanchal School”, which seems to be a perfect candidate for an off-grid computer system complete with solar panels.
I’ll post a longer update when I get my charger, be assured there is more to come! This project is starting to wrap up, which is a really relieving feeling. I am looking forward to showing the fruits of my (our) labor over the past few month in a week or so.
That’s all for now.
Charles
I was born in London, England. At the age of ten, I moved to Hong Kong, which opened up a whole new part of the world: Asia. Since then, I have enjoyed traveling to different locales around the world. Having graduated from High School, I am taking a gap year to work on a computer project in Nepal, and later a cultural immersion trip in Ghana. This is the blog I am using to keep the world notified. 
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