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Building A Museum Listening Station?
Anonymous Coward writes "I am building a museum exhibit which requires the use of 10 listening stations. These should be able to play back a few minutes of audio, should have an obvious Play button (and no other buttons: less confusion for the elderly and less to break for the kids), and should be able to work with an absolute minimum of supervision for three months of constant use. There are fancy ready-made solutions to this problem, but at $350, it would be too expensive to buy 10 of them. Similarly, there are cheap solutions ($20 CD player + $15 headphones), but this is probably not reliable or user friendly enough for this exhibit. Does the Slashdot community have any suggestions for how to build a reasonably inexpensive museum listening station?"
A great idea but I am concerned that you appear to be suggesting he offers jobs, which could be performed perfectly well by Americans, to foreigners. OK they may work for a bit less but you'd save money on the retraining costs with the Americans.
There's a good chance if you did a deal with some local primary schools etc you wouldn't even need to pay them, their teachers may even be persuaded to pay you to take them off their hands for a few months.