Low-Cost Radio Communication choices

Inspiration: the amazing J. C. Bose

Receiver options

What to receive?, shortwave/AM, AirMedia
Traditional approaches
One-chip solutions: low-power radio, DVP, Micrel, Radiometrix
Trade-offs: cost, complexity, performance, size

Transmitter options

Argos, an example, and photo.
Repeaters
Issues: power, location

Examples of field-deployable low-cost information technology

1$ compact information viewer - Ravi Pappu
$10 video display - Matt Reynolds, Rehmi Post
$10 printing receiver - Rich Fletcher

For further information, contact:

Rich Fletcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Media Lab, E15-492
20 Ames St.
Cambridge, MA 02139

e-mail: fletcher@media.mit.edu