We love hearing about how you use your Eye-Fi card. Our new User Profiles allow you to share your Eye-Fi story with us. If you’d like to be showcased, please send us an email at mystory at eye.fi. We’ll even throw in some cool stickers!
It’s almost Graduation time! For this special user profile, we’re featuring some cool students at Carnegie Mellon and their creative organization, the Tartan. They used their Eye-Fi cards to share photos in near real time during one of the events held at Carnegie Mellon. Check out the details below.
Name: The Tartan at Carnegie Mellon
Occupation: The Tartan is Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper, publishing since 1906. Developers of the website are Marshall Roch, a computer science and human-computer student and Can Duruk, a cognitive science and human-computer interaction student. Marshall is pursuing a master’s degree in human-computer interaction and Can is a senior.
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Twitter: @thetartan (or if you want to follow the cool Eye-Fi’ers inside, check out Marshall @mroch and Can @cduruk)
Website: Thetartan.org
Which Eye-Fi card do you own?
Eye-Fi Share card
What’s your Eye-Fi story?
Each year in spring, Carnegie Mellon holds a spring carnival, featuring many different events including soapbox car-style races called Buggy, a line tracking robot race, spectacular booths build by student organizations and concert. This year, as The Tartan, we wanted to provide live coverage of events using photos, on our carnival page. We bought an Eye-Fi card and set up a system where the photos would be sent over the campus-wide WiFi network to our servers and from there to our website. This way, our photographers could just keep taking photographs, without having to drop them off and our visitors would see our photographs almost in real time.
The live coverage increased visits dramatically and the overall reception from the community was very positive. We have plans to cover the carnival even more depth in the next years and we are sure Eye-Fi will be an important part of those plans.
What’s the latest photo/video you Eye-Fi’d?
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