Your Technical Questions Answered
Your Questions Answered
"Can I connect a projector and laptop computer wirelessly?"
The short answer is, "Yes," however there are many “gotchas” and the process is not “plug and play.” MDS continues to recommend use of a VGA cable to connect a projector to a laptop. If you’re interested in trying out wireless connectivity, following are some steps you’ll need to take and related information:
- Your projector must be wireless capable (like the Epson 1715c).
- You will need to load special software on to your laptop (available on the company web site).
- Depending on your computer’s video card it may only work in the dual-monitor mode instead of the clone mode.
- You will need to set up the computer to recognize the projector.
- Ad Hoc mode (on the projector) is the simplest way to connect. This allows you to connect to the projector wirelessly, but not to the internet at the same time.
- Infrastructure Mode will allow for dual wireless connections but requires you to register your MAC address with ITS/Net Admin to address Cisco Clean Access permissions.
- The projected image over wireless has only a slight lag for PowerPoint but is not recommended for video due to latency.
Bill Plummer, Animal Science asks, "We have dying Microscope Camera, how can we record Bull Test samples to create short instructional videos for our website?"
Solution: The department purchased a video camcorder with an internal hard drive with a lens adapter kit for a microscope:
JVC GZ-MC30U Hard Drive Camcorder
Microscope Lens Adapter Kit from http://microscope-store.com/
This camcorder and lens arrangement delivers clear and crisp images that are recorded to an internal hard drive in MPEG2 format. The movies can then be easily transferred to a computer via USB2 then either posted directly to a web site or edited and archived.
Note: Camcorder shuts down after 5 minutes if not in the record mode so a separate video camera might still be needed for normal lab work usage.