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These are culls from a project control+alt+design did for an educational computing platform concern. 

The goal was to produce inexpensive, durable and flexible laptop computers for primary schoolers which were maintained by the school (charged in a rollabout classroom rack) but each serving multiple sets of students, on a period-by-period “ownership” basis. 

One of the main challenges was to instill a pride-of-ownership in the recipient, a problem when the timeline of ownership extended only to the next bell! 

We proposed relegendable LCD name badges on the laptops, tied in via 802.11 to the teacher’s computer.  Each time a new period began–the laptops would re-legend with the new student’s name.