Good idea or no?
For our One Acts show this year we want to try wireless projection again.
(For those that don't know, One Acts is a traveling group where the set up and take down time are 5 minutes exactly)
The last time we tried this, it went flawlessly except for our student stage manager plugging in a VGA cable upside down in the dark. Needless to say as the designer, one broken 100' VGA later we are very skeptical moving into this field again.
Our budget is very low, so we are using what we have at hand. That being said, I have a Chromecast that I have connected to a private wireless network created on a laptop. With this set up all I need is access to the internet and the Chromecast is automatically connected to the laptop, I can stream a tab of Scratch (just the right amount of cheesy animation the director desires) which can be projected onto a backdrop, just needing to power the projector (which can power the Chromecast with onboard USB port).
So is this foolproof enough? Does anyone see any holes? Or are there any better solutions for wireless projection that we could use?
For our One Acts show this year we want to try wireless projection again.
(For those that don't know, One Acts is a traveling group where the set up and take down time are 5 minutes exactly)
The last time we tried this, it went flawlessly except for our student stage manager plugging in a VGA cable upside down in the dark. Needless to say as the designer, one broken 100' VGA later we are very skeptical moving into this field again.
Our budget is very low, so we are using what we have at hand. That being said, I have a Chromecast that I have connected to a private wireless network created on a laptop. With this set up all I need is access to the internet and the Chromecast is automatically connected to the laptop, I can stream a tab of Scratch (just the right amount of cheesy animation the director desires) which can be projected onto a backdrop, just needing to power the projector (which can power the Chromecast with onboard USB port).
So is this foolproof enough? Does anyone see any holes? Or are there any better solutions for wireless projection that we could use?