reasons for dissasembly?

Ron K. Jeffries rjeffries at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 17:06:43 EDT 2011


Jane
I greatly admire your curiosity, but this would be the best possible way to
change your Ben from slightly ill (one key screwed up) to a paperweight. If
you want to learn about hardware, consider buying a cheap Arduino kit and
put it together, then make it talk to Ben using a UBB board (available from
Tuxbrain).

Taking apart any consumer electronic device, whether it is Ben or your
mobile phone is high risk, low reward. Don't go there. ;(
---
Ron K. Jeffries
http://ronkjeffries.pen.io






On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 13:18, Alan Post <alanpost at sunflowerriver.org>wrote:

> I would consider you qualified if you were willing to purchase a new
> one should you not be able to put it back together.  :-)
>
> -Alan
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:16:22PM +0000, Jane Andreas wrote:
> >    I am thinking of dissasembling my Ben, but would like input on
> possible
> >    reasons. I also noted in the manual it said "seel free to take apart
> but
> >    only if you are qualified". What would qualify me? I can forsee some
> >    benefits to taking it apart:
> >
> >    insight into hardware
> >    exercise in carefulness
> >    confidence and self empowerment
> >
> >    However, unlike some electronics, I believe there is nothing to  be
> "done"
> >    on the Nanonote, ie, there are no RAM slots, changeable cpu, or
> addable
> >    peripherals so it would mainly be "exploratory surgery in my opinion.
> >
> >    The one changeable thing about the hardware (and I only discovered
> that
> >    recently) is the keyboard.
>
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