September 26, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
I was able to attend the World Maker Faire this year in NYC. It was an excellent and well attended event. As one might imagine there was a focus on 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC routing and other fabrication technologies....
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September 23, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
I got the chance to attend the Whitlock Convergence, probably the best annual A/V tradeshow in the area, on September 23rd. As usual, it was a useful event with many major players in the classroom technology space represented and showing off their newest products....
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September 22, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
Mark McGill has brought his Oculus Rift in for demos over the last few weeks. I was impressed with this form of interactivity but also questioned if this would ever become "main stream" or at least more widely accepted given the...
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September 11, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
After an introduction by our CIO Tracy Futhey, we were invited by Town Of Chapel Hill CIO, John D. Bjurman to see their recently renovated council chambers. The Town Hall's ground floor was flooded back in June which lead to the...
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September 5, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Sony's new 4K ultra short throw laser projector has 4 HDMI inputs, speakers, RS-232, and a light output of 2,000 lm. It is capable of projecting a 147" 4K image. Oh, and it lists at $50,000. Check out Sony's website for more info....
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September 4, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
We are kicking off this semester's DDMC meetings with an open discussion about the state of 3D Printing at Duke. Courtesy of the DDI program, OIT-ITS has added two Makerbot extrusion 3D printers to the MPS lab's services and are in the process...
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September 2, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
The FLIR One imaging system began shipping last week (http://www.flir.com/flirone/) Alternative sensor tech is a very interesting subject for production engineers. For years I have been ripping my apart my camera bodies to strip out the cut filters that limit...
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August 27, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
As we begin Fall semester, I wanted to take an opportunity to plug Duke's YouTube channel, a great place to put promotional videos and other content you'd like to be seen as widely as possible. The way it works is...
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By: Jack D'Ardenne
Last month Paul Zylowski, Mweshi “Moon” Ngandwe, and I did a live web chat discussing some of the various AV gear and technologies we saw on our recent trip to InfoComm 2014 this past June. Below is a recording of the web chat....
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August 13, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
This may be of interest to some of you: http://www.haivision.com/makito-donations-for-higher-education Haivision is donating free Haivision Makito HD 1080p60 H.264 video encoders for use within higher education classes or lab environments. The first respondents who meet the qualifying criteria will receive a pair of...
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