Balthazar

Balthazar - a Personal Computing Device

One laptop for the new internet.

Secure, fast, inexpensive. Pick all three.

BPCD - Balthazar Personal Computing Device is a 13.3" laptop that contains all the hardware and software features and precautions to prevent any 3rd party intrusion into the system. While being versatile and robust it also strictly follows GNU, FOSS and EOMA guidelines.

It is very expensive to buy an “advanced” or secure laptop and it comes with usually "customised" and mostly propitiatory software that bounds a user to a manufacturer, this is where BPCD comes in.

BPCD is aimed to inexpensively enable end user to control all the inputs via physical hardware switches and security dongles, preventing even a remote possibility to have system invaded by any 3rd party.

It is NOT OLPC-like, but it follows some of OLPC product design innovations and features, adopted and improved for today’s performance requirements focusing on privacy, safety and personal data protection and encrypted shared data or a retention of the same in its own “cloud”.

Remember - a “Cloud” is just other people’s or corporations’  computers.

 

Education being a very important issue today all over the planet is yet another field where BPCD will make an impact.  New generations need to learn and understand the importance of being secure and how to care about their personal data, moreover additional connectors and IO’s  also enable them to tinker and create their own devices or program LEGO sensors and actuators while retractable GPIO module, enables them in controlling, testing and programming sensors, actuators and other electronic devices and gadgets from literally every other manufacturer. (Matrix, VeX, Arduino etc.)