http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2005/04/12/hennepin-signage-is-done/ Just another Walker Blogs weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:56:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2005/04/12/hennepin-signage-is-done/#comment-138 New Media Initiatives Blog » Signage Update. Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:42:42 +0000 /?p=35#comment-138 [...] It seems like we have reached some sort of milestone for our biggest dynamic signage project. The giant projection on Hennepin Ave. is now using information coming out of our database. Unfortunately there is still a little bit of work I have to do every day transporting images because (1) Watchout uses windows machines that we can’t expose to our network because their settings are insecure and (2) we don’t have a VLAN set up yet to securely connect to them. So that means I still move the dynamically generated content back and forth on a physical CD. The good news is that Nate wrote a program that pulls data out of our calendar database and writes 3 big PNG graphics each containing a number of events spaced out evenly. I just have to upload graphics to the right directory on the Watchout server press refresh and it updates. Watchout doesn’t really seem to be built for this since it isn’t mentioned in any of the documentation but it does work. [...] [...] It seems like we have reached some sort of milestone for our biggest dynamic signage project. The giant projection on Hennepin Ave. is now using information coming out of our database. Unfortunately there is still a little bit of work I have to do every day transporting images because (1) Watchout uses windows machines that we can’t expose to our network because their settings are insecure and (2) we don’t have a VLAN set up yet to securely connect to them. So that means I still move the dynamically generated content back and forth on a physical CD. The good news is that Nate wrote a program that pulls data out of our calendar database and writes 3 big PNG graphics each containing a number of events spaced out evenly. I just have to upload graphics to the right directory on the Watchout server press refresh and it updates. Watchout doesn’t really seem to be built for this since it isn’t mentioned in any of the documentation but it does work. [...]

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2005/04/12/hennepin-signage-is-done/#comment-137 New Media Initiatives » Signage Update. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=35#comment-137 [...] s like we have reached some sort of milestone for our biggest dynamic signage project. The <a href="http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/index.php?p=35">giant projection</a> on Hennepin Ave. is now using information coming out of our database. Unfortu [...] [...] s like we have reached some sort of milestone for our biggest dynamic signage project. The giant projection on Hennepin Ave. is now using information coming out of our database. Unfortu [...]

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