Article by Rufus Muturi of BRCK.
At first, we could not connect as many wireless devices to the BRCK to access the content seamlessly. We got frequent dropped connections and the bandwidth limitations prevented connection to more than five devices at a go. We have made massive improvements to the BRCK and now it can support a up to of twenty devices. That is just a stand-alone BRCK. To give it a kick so that more devices could latch onto it, we attached a RaspberryPi compute module to take care of the processing while the BRCK handled the wireless connectivity. Content could be pushed more efficiently now and more devices could access it. The kind of devices we were testing with were our smartphones and tablets around the office. For application in education, this was not going to suffice. We already had content, from one of our partners eLimu, whom we selfishly and shamelessly poached Nivi Mukherjee, and made her head of our BRCK Education unit.
