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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Alcorn McBride in Sound & Communications
Friday, August 6th, 2010In the July edition of Sound and Communications, Eric Wolfram from Integrisys Group writes about the recent upgrades to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
“…In designing the AV system, we were quite aware of the museum’s need for something far more reliable than the typical commercial or residential project. ‘We are open 364 days a year and this system has to work on all of those days,’ Beckman told us. ‘It has to have almost no maintenance and be simple to use: We want to just turn it on at the beginning of the day and then everything has to be automated from there.’ To meet the requirement for reliability, we used a solid-state, V16+ show controller from Alcorn McBride, with the video itself stored on two one-gigabyte flash cards, rather than tape, DVD or a even hard drive…”
InfoComm 2010 has ended!
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Or has it? The week after a trade show is a critical time. It can go one of two ways. You can sit back and say “Phew! What a week! I am glad that’s over,” or you can say “Phew! What a week! I can’t wait to get started!” So which are you?
I must admit I am a bit relieved the show is over. We launched new products, held training sessions, and met with clients after hours. If you have exhibited at a trade show you can relate when I say it’s a lot of deadline driven work. So yeah, it feels great to have it behind me. BUT by far the best part of exhibiting at the trade show is reaping the rewards of your hard work. We already got started! The contacts, project leads, and product feedback are more than icing on the cake…it is the reason why we do trade shows in the first place!
Software Intern – Summer 2010
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Alcorn McBride is looking for a Summer Software Intern to help with product development. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 1 year experience in all of the following software areas of knowledge: C, C++, and Visual C++ Object-Oriented Programming using Microsoft Visual Studio and other integrated development environments.
Familiarity with microprocessor-based systems using uCLinux and/or Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems, PC-based Graphical User-Interface Programs for Industrial Control, QT development framework, Theme Park Show Control, or similar applications using Java, PHP, and other HTML scripting or XML-based languages is a plus.
Other skills of a standout candidate include proficiency with graphic design and video software such as Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, and other programs to generate video and graphic design files.
Show Control Training at InfoComm
Friday, February 26th, 2010We are well underway with our preparations for the upcoming trade shows. Our Engineering Team has been busy with product development. Over the past year, we have released five new products! (Digital Video Machine HD, ShowTouch, V4Pro, DMX OverRide, and the LightCue Pro). There is no slow down in sight for us as we prepare to launch the new SetPlayer HD for on-set video to the Broadcast Market at NAB and new audio and video players at InfoComm. Whew! Good thing we keep our kitchen stocked with healthy snacks.
Summer Internship
Friday, February 19th, 2010If you know an aspiring mechanical engineer who’d like a summer internship, please pass along this interesting opportunity.
Mechanical Design Intern – Summer 2010
Alcorn McBride is looking for a Mechanical Design Intern to work at our headquarters in Orlando for the summer of 2010.
The ideal candidate has a minimum of one year of experience (or equivalent College-level course) in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applied to electronic and mechanical assemblies. The ability to generate mechanical drawings using AutoCAD and OrCAD (printed circuit board design) software packages is required.
Responsibilities include generating production-ready fabrication drawings based on existing documentation, creating Integrated Circuit footprint drawings, simple cable assembly drawings and other mechanical design tasks.
Happy Holidays Your Way!
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009I hesitated writing a holiday blog post. It seems as if the typical “Happy Holidays from us to you” (although pleasant and sincere) seems a bit overdone to me. So my holiday greetings come with a thought in mind: have it your way. Use this holiday season to do whatever it is that is the most important to you. For me, it’s all about my children…relishing what very well may be my last “Santa” year with our young believers. I also have a Mom who likes to take over the holidays and do “mom” things. A chance for me to put my feet up! Think a moment…what’s your holiday thing?
Harry Potter: A Land, Not a Park
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Wizarding World of Harry Potter
As with most of the mainstream press, UPHAA has confused what is simply going to be a “land” at Universal’s Islands of Adventure with a complete theme park. While I have no doubt that Harry Potter would have been a great theme for a complete park, that’s not what the public is going to be getting when The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opens this spring. Let’s hope the general public doesn’t have overblown expectations, because I think it’s going to be a great addition to IOA. But it’s not a complete theme park.
When Your Own Product Surprises You
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009I recently helped John Conley, one of our application engineers, with an app note about collecting projector status using the V16 Pro. As one of the architects of our V16+ show controller, I had always been frustrated by the difficulty of collecting arbitrary data from remote devices and doing something intelligent with it. And although I was involved in specifying the feature set of the new V16 Pro, I hadn’t yet used one. I hadn’t realized how far Project Engineer Joy Burke had taken the data processing capabilities of the V16 Pro.
It turns out that even with a hellaciously complicated Ethernet protocol like the Panasonic projector’s, all you have to do is tell the V16 Pro its IP address. Then, by simply saying “GetLampHours” in your script, the values magically show up in a variable for you to do whatever you want with them.