Junkyard Jumbotron

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The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random displays and instantly stitch them together into a large, virtual display, simply by taking a photograph of them. It works with laptops, smartphones, tablets --- anything that runs a web browser. It also highlights a new way of connecting a large number of heterogenous devices to each other in the field, on an ad-hoc basis.

The Junkyard Jumbotron is designed by Rick Borovoy, Ph.D. and Brian Knep at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media.

The software is BETA.

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Create

We need a name for your new jumbotron.

Tips

  • Names must begin with a letter or number and may contain only letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores.
  • At any time you can connect to this jumbotron from the home page.
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Connect

What is the name of your jumbotron?

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Setup

Arrange your displays, open a web browser on each, and navigate to jj.brownbag.me/none

They should look something like this:

Tips
  • Make sure the symbol on each display isn't hidden by another display.
Problems?
  • If some displays are black, you may be using a browser we don't support. We support most modern browsers other than Internet Explorer. Try Chrome, Firefox or Safari instead.
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Calibrate

Take a picture of the displays.

Email the picture to none@jj.brownbag.meor upload it below.

Tips
  • Make sure each symbol can be seen completely in the picture.
  • Avoid glare and other reflections that might hide the symbols.
  • Try to take the picture from directly in front of the displays.
  • If you've already calibrated your jumbotron, you may skip this step
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Success!

We received your picture and created a jumbotron out of the displays we found.

Your displays should now look something like this:

Problems?

  • If you see a warning sign on one of the displays, it means we coudn't find that display. Try again, and make sure to follow the tips.
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Whoops!

We received your picture but didn't find any displays.

Try again, and make sure to follow the tips.

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Control

Here you can add and remove images, step through them individually, play them in a slideshow, or resize them. You can also recalibrate if you'd like to rearrange, add, or remove displays.

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Email pictures tonone@jj.brownbag.meor upload them below.

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