Toolin' Up Thursdays: wall mounts
A few years back, I went on a buying spree. The goal? Ubiquitous status displays. My idea was to experiment with various signage/display systems around the home and office. This would lead to more experience when recommending them to projects and programs.
Results? It was a mixed bag. I put one in the kitchen and mounted an HP slate computer. The HP, oddly enough, ran Android, which meant that even though it was a 17" monitor, it worked just like a phone. We found this quite useful for playing music, making grocery lists (since it was besides the refrigerator), and checking the weather.
With the others, I had to also mount/connect a computer. For a couple of these, I bought a VESA box (?). It was a box that went between the wall arm and the display. That's where I put a NUC.
On both of these I installed Ubuntu and set them to auto-login. One had a touch-screen, the other did not. Finally I stuck an old tablet computer to the wall of our garden shed and ran power to it.
There were some really cool and really sucky parts. For instance, dangling a mouse and keyboard from the wall is simply a non-starter, no matter how much it seems like it might work. Touchscreens are great if you're using software made to adapt to touchscreens.
All of that's probably a post for another day, but in general, this was a great investment because it made me think of the difference between the _idea_ of a common public system and the actuality of installing one. Fun times.
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