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AV Updates- Easter 2017

April 20, 2017 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

Electrical Engineering Building The 1st floor now has a new boardroom comprising a 65" screen with control panel and AV inputs/power mounted on the desk. The ground floor seminar room has also been upgraded with a drop down screen, projector, lectern and touch control … [Read more...]

AV Upgrades in LT0

September 29, 2016 By Gavin MacKenzie 4 Comments

The AV System in LT0 has had an upgrade over the Summer break which has seen a number of changes that we’d like to make you aware of in preparation for the start of term. The decision to make the change now has arisen out of a number of factors: An ever dwindling … [Read more...]

AV Upgrade in Boardroom

September 1, 2016 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

The Boardroom AV has been refurbished over August. The projector is now ceiling mounted and the screen automatically drops when the system is powered on. All AV equipment is housed in a secure lectern with local interactive monitor, laptop inputs and a touch screen … [Read more...]

AV Upgrades for Lent Term

January 12, 2016 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

AV systems in LT6 and LT1 have both been upgraded over the Xmas break with new systems also installed in the Dyson Design Centre and Library.     As per LR4 the systems were designed, built and programmed in-house by Gavin MacKenzie and Adam … [Read more...]

ITX AV Expo 2015

November 3, 2015 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

Part of the UIS ITX 2015 IT exhibition, the AV Expo will be taking place on the 19th November at the Roger Needham Building in West Cambridge. This is an opportunity for users of teaching technology and audio visual aids to view demonstrations and get hands-on with the … [Read more...]

LR4 AV System Upgrade

October 21, 2015 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

Over the summer break, AV Support conducted a pilot upgrade of the audio-visual system in LR4. The aim was to make the system easier to use, improve the security of the equipment and house everything in a professional looking lectern. In order to support and inform … [Read more...]

Lessons from the LR4 upgrade

June 29, 2015 By Gavin MacKenzie 2 Comments

The upgraded AV system is now installed in LR4- news item to follow. We were faced with a number of challenges and I thought I'd talk about some lessons that came out of the exercise. One of them is that EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) management is not as … [Read more...]

Dyson Building and Design Centre

April 30, 2015 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

      If I haven't posted anything on here in a while it's because I am currently working with the project teams for the new James Dyson Building and Dyson Design Centre in designing the audio visual systems for the spaces. CUED AV Support will be … [Read more...]

LT0 AV ideas

February 25, 2015 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

Networking for the new AV system for LR4 has forced us to consider the AV strategy for LT0 more closely since the booth in LT0 is 'en-route' in networking terms. We've been working this week on flushing out the details (scribbling on a piece of paper!) of an infrastructure … [Read more...]

Extron AV Control Programming

January 28, 2015 By Gavin MacKenzie Leave a Comment

After a helpful visit from Craig Stonall of Extron (and some prompt network lashing by Adam and Paul), I've been moving forward with the design and programming of the control system for LR4. Feel free to pop in to IE1-35 if your interested at taking a look... The … [Read more...]

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