User:Kim/Project Proposal (e-reader-server)
What do you want to make?
Build a low-tech server on an old e-reader device. The server serves a community of texts.
How do you plan to make it?
Prototype documentation
As of today (oct 2nd) There is no working prototype. However, here are the steps I plan to undertake:
- get an e-reader device
- pin down requirements that device would need: Supports Host mode and Wifi connection
- find used (cheap) devices: online, in second hand stores or from friends
- get familiar with the e-readers hard and software
- start installing the server
- more conceptual phase starts here: what is the server serving, under what conditions and to whom?
- documentation
What is your timetable?
Why do you want to make it?
i have been curious about servers, 'hidden' infrastructures such as website backends and the inner live of devices. At the same time I feel drawn to text as a technology equally as much as to physical books. The e-reader-server is a junction of all these interests.
Setting up this server I want to examine: what impact does the choice of device have on the content a server presents and the way it is presented? In what ways are texts a community or community forming?
Who can help you and how?
Karen and Marie both have hands on experience with setting up small servers on repurposed devices.