507: Ian Elsner & His Stick of Gum PC

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🗓️ 27 October 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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David and Stephen talk with Ian Elsner, a museum exhibit creator who is using the iPhone SE, iPad Pro and an Intel Compute Stick together in some very interesting and unusual ways to help develop educational exhibits for kids and adults.

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0:00.0	Mac Power Users episode 507, Ian Ellsner and his Stick of Gum PC.
0:07.0	Welcome back to the Mac Power Users. I'm David Sparks joined by my fellow
0:16.3	co-host Mr Stephen Hackett. How are you today Stephen? I'm good David
0:20.0	how are you doing great Stephen we got a guest today. Welcome to the show Ian Elsner.
0:24.0	Hello thank you for having me. Now Ian and I have been talking for a while.
0:27.6	Ian is a developer he makes applications for museums using his Apple hardware.
0:35.0	It's kind of interesting.
0:37.0	And tell us just a little bit about what you do.
0:41.0	Yeah, so that's exactly right. I make those kiosk
0:45.6	interactives that you see in museums, you know everything from
0:49.9	children's museums, from science museums to historical museums.
0:55.0	And, you know, it's not just a kiosk.
0:57.6	Sometimes it could be something that's projected,
1:01.1	or sometimes that it could be something that has a novel interface like a connect-based thing,
1:07.5	but all in all it's about teaching something mostly to kids.
1:14.0	Well, Ian, every time I try to reach out to Ian,
1:17.2	he is like in some other place in the world
1:20.8	where he gets to spend months at a time at a museum, which I would think that is kind of awesome to tell you the truth.
1:27.0	And so it's been really fun kind of coordinating with Ian over, I don't know how long we've been working on this
1:33.6	Ian about six months now and we did nail him down and he is going to tell us
1:38.3	today about how he got into development how he goes about making these kiosks and other museum exhibits.
1:46.8	He's also a road warrior of course because of all this.
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