Hi Matt,
We recently installed a Phillips 46" touchscreen in the Whitechapel Gallery powered by an old Mac Mini mounted on the back of the monitor using the handy vesa mounting holes that Phillips provide making the whole thing one unit. As for costs the old mac mini was already here doing other things and we used eCrisper to run the kiosk, works really nicely, is compact and can be removed easily.
Alternatively if you're fed up with Macs you could take a look at one of the higher end BrightSign displays such as the HD1020 (http://www.brightsign.biz/products/hd1020.php) that claims to be able to handle interactive displays via its free BrightAuthor software. The BrightSigns are very compact and power efficient, half the height of a Mac Mini, with a similar footprint.
You could try out a Raspberry PI, I keep meaning to.
If you go down the small form PC I'd be interested to know what hardware you use as I haven't seen anything smaller than a Mac Mini since I saw an Evesham PC based clone many years ago.
Regards
Tony Harris
New Media Officer & Photographer
Government Art Collection
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-----Original Message-----
From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matthew Barr
Sent: 12 July 2012 15:40
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: iPad as kiosk, projected on a screen
Thanks everyone for responding. Based on feedback, we're really looking at either an iPad with AirPlay mirroring to a projector (or using one of these adapters - expensive for what they are, but cheaper than an Apple TV box), or a small-form PC hooked up to a larger touch screen monitor.
The latter solution appeals to me in terms of development - the PC is a known quantity for me - and because the screens we're being quoted for are likely to be much more robust for public use than an iPad, and bigger. But, we'll see... people do love their Apple kit (and paying £35 for a VGA adapter, grumble, grumble...)!
Thanks again,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ray Shah
Sent: 12 July 2012 15:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: iPad as kiosk, projected on a screen
Or you could use the Apple VGA adapter
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC552ZM/B?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE
Or the one with HDMI out and USB power in http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD098ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE
at £35 each, they're not cheap, but do the job.
You'll have to secure the iPads as the cable is really stiff and moving the iPad will disengage the cable. You were probably thinking of mounting them securely anyway, so this should not be an issue
Best,
- Ray
http://www.thinkdesign.com <http://www.thinkdesign.com>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Joe Baskerville <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You could always add an AppleTV into the mix, in which case you could
> screen mirror over AirPlay to the ATV plugged into the projector, and
> still keep the power cable in.
>
> Joe.
>
>
> cogapp
>
> Joe Baskerville
> Head of New Technology
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>
>
> On 11 Jul 2012, at 12:15, Michael Stocking wrote:
>
> > We ran iPads as kiosks in a gallery in New York without the
> > projector
> and it worked fine. One thing that occurs to me is that we had to use
> the dock connector to keep power to the iPad (otherwise it wouldn't
> last a full gallery day), which is the connector you'd need to output to a projector.
> Unless there's some sort of splitter this may be an issue. We also
> found a very nice stand for the iPads if you're interested.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > www.ebooktreasures.org - the greatest books in the world on iPad
> > ========================= Michael Stocking Managing Director
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:48, Matthew Barr wrote:
> >
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> Just wondering if anyone has had any experience of using an iPad
> >> 2/3 as
> a kiosk (e.g. using the Kiosk Pro app) to deliver locally-hosted
> web/multimedia content while simultaneously outputting the contents of
> the screen to a projector?
> >>
> >> We'd like to do something like this so that other museum visitors
> >> can
> view the multimedia content on the projector screen while someone else
> is using the relatively small iPad display.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts/recommendations/tales of woe would be warmly received.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >> Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
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