Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Kiosk

I was thrilled to earn the responsibility build a kiosk for the Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial, the gorgeous memorial commemorating Brazos Valley area veterans with their names beautifully engraved in granite around a sculpture. The outdoor kiosk serves as a name-placement locator utility, and is housed in a very classy, open-air pavilion shelter designed by Eric Wivagg. Stanton Ware provided the interface's main design and layout as well as much of the content. My multi-hat role was project coordinator, UI developer, Flash/Actionscript programmer, database developer, and coordinator of kiosk hardware donation, painting, and installation.

In 2000, I ported a flat FileMaker Pro db and built the database to hold the names and track donors, pledges, and payments. In 2006, I began work on a kiosk interface to allow visitors to look up their names' placements on the memorial. This was a "dream project" for me, because I got to use Flash in a real world , public, self-standing kiosk application. The swf is compiled into a projector exe by mdm Zinc in order to take advantage of dll's used to do Access calls by SQL.

Kiosk search interface screenshot Kiosk front page screenshot Veteran Memorial Pavilion with kiosk At Last! You have new Picture Mail! Drilling The Mounts Pavilion at the Veterans Memorial Ceiling of Pavilion at Veteran Memorial Pavilion at Veteran Memorial Almost Complete Ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Kiosk innards Kiosk chassis That Can't Be Good kiosk head is here Veterans Memorial Kiosk site Veterans Memorial - engraving on break Veterans Memorial Veterans Memorial Kiosk site Where the rubber hits the road Pillars Memorial Kiosk Pavilion under construction Memorial Kiosk Project Site Entrance to Veterans Memorial Kiosk Parts Kiosk Parts Kiosk Parts

 

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