Comments on: Mac Setups: Computer Science Teaching Desk

By: Dilbert Asended

Dilbert Asended — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:29:12 +0000

Does anyone else know where I can find that wallpaper?

By: Amelia

Amelia — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:14:16 +0000

That. Is. Awesome. Seriously… I seriously think I should change my plan for my study table… And I wish I was taking your class!! I <3 iOS development…

By: Dilbert Asended

Dilbert Asended — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:37:53 +0000

Nice setup.

Where can I find the Lion in shadow desktop?

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:18:46 +0000

Thanks! I’ll look into the Ergotron arms. Need to setup something with different sized displays – 2 to start with, and I don’t like these ‘symetrical stands’ I often see in online shops. That Ergotron looked really good to.

// Initial idea was to do some sort of pipe system – just pipes and clamps. (a little bit like in “Painkiller Jane” (TV)) Hard to find here though. //

By: Barry L

Barry L — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:52:32 +0000

The 2 monitors are on Ergotron mounting arms so that I can move them around easily when working with students one on one. I literally unbolted them from my home office and brought them in as i needed the setup, but bought them from amazon. The students never see the monitor on the left, with the Lion on it, only the second monitor is mirrored throughout the room. The iPad stand is one Santa brought me for my iPad 1, made by Rocket Fish. Its not one of the all aluminum ones, but I like it. It swivels easily, and I just found a way to turn it towards a clipboard and use it to “scan” text using the camera to use for instruction. Pretty neat.

By: Barry L

Barry L — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:46:29 +0000

I found the wallpaper from this Flickr group. Very cool. It automatically brings up the right resolution for whatever device your viewing the image from. Now, if they could just raise the resolution for my new iPad retina display.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ipadinsight/pool/

By: Barry L

Barry L — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:42:00 +0000

It is the most elaborate cabling system and powered splitters you can imagine! I had to clear out my room one summer for renovations and it took nearly 5 hours to hook eveything back up, thanks to the help of some of my students. The sad thing is, the splitters and monitors are all VGA, but we hope to slowly transition to DVI maybe over the summer. $$ is tight, and with looking to implement iPads for our students, I may have to beat the bushes, and have garage sales to raise the funds to update everything.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:31:48 +0000

Very cool. A bit better than the type writers we had in hs.
We live in the best of times ✨
Great thread as always 👍

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:25:27 +0000

What’s the mount system for the displays/ipad?

By: saplin

saplin — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:24:21 +0000

And to top it off, he’s an incredible teacher!

By: Vilmar

Vilmar — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:06:18 +0000

Nice, wish we had that course back when I went to high school.

But impressive gear none the less.

By: Amigalander

Amigalander — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:36:43 +0000

I want that desktop background.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:32:31 +0000

Very cool that iOS development is being taught in high school.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:19:44 +0000

How do you mirror a display to 19 others? Is that the most elaborate cord configuration in history, or is there an easy way to do that?