We have decided to open up CONRAD, allowing you to post whatever pictures you'd like on the 3 displays near the elevator on the 5th floor of Bren Hall. CONRAD is a project focusing on many small displays around a building, allowing location relevant information to be displayed. There are currently 17 CONRAD displays up around the 5th floor of Bren Hall. We have several applications planned for the system, including the Navigation demo shown at the open house. This application - the image slide show - represents our first attempt at making the displays public.

Please feel free to add your own images to the displays, allowing everyone coming to the 5th floor to see them! The image configuration utility can be found here:

Your image must be hosted elsewhere, and you will need the URL to it. Note that all images are rescaled to 480x272, so please crop & scale as necessary beforehand.

Simply login with your UCINetID, select the display you want your image on, and fill out the details. Pictures expire after so many hours, but you may renew them. The Duration sets how long a photo will be displayed before the next one appears - please be courteous and not display your images for too long (10 seconds recommended)!

If there is a demand, we will enable other CONRAD displays around the floor to also show images.

We are currently working out a bunch of bugs in the software. Let us know if you run into problems. This represents the first cut of our Image posting utility - if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to send them on to me.

For more information on the CONRAD project, see our project page on the LUCI website:

--Nick (Noack)