Natalia,
Since you're going to be moving your node a lot and lugging quite a bit of
equipment, you'll want a sturdy cart. Jeff Schwab built a portable node for us
a couple of years ago and used a "Media Director" lectern from Spectrum
Industries - see
http://www.spectrumfurniture.com/prd/lvl3.cfm?prodline_id=13&cat_id=66&subcat_id=89&subcat=195
It's rock-solid (and very heavy), has lockable doors (although we installed
hasps and padlocks for additional security), openings for cables, and plenty of
space to store equipment. I'm attaching some pictures of our PIG,
affectionately called ArnoldZ, in action.
Bill Whitson
Rosen Center for Advanced Computing
Information Technology at Purdue
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From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of
Natalia Costas Lago
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:12 AM
To: John I Quebedeaux Jr
Cc: ag-tech
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Portable AG node
Thank you very much John for such a detailed description. There are some points
that are interesting for ours.
Our mobile node will be used... everywhere. Actually we are thinking in a 3
projectors setup. Buy 3 portable screens.... The main goal is to reduce the
size of the rack (that means to reduce every item we can think of), and try to
work out some solutions for an easy .. "plug and play". The cables issue is a
big one.
We need.. room node quality equipment.. that we can move around easily.
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