Whiteboard Walls
March 8th, 2005
We wanted to do whiteboards everywhere when building the Blender at Stanford, but were limited by cost at the time. Kevin Kelley finds a better way:
You can get a magnificently large—4 by 8 feet—and fabulously cheap whiteboard for all of $13 at Home Depot. What you want is the Solid White Tileboard (sometimes called Melamine tile wall panel) used as a tile substitute in bathrooms. Some know it as showerboard because a couple of sheets of this and you have a nice waterproof shower stall. You’ll need a $1 tube of panel adhesive to glue this 1/8 inch surface to the wall or a piece of plywood. Melamine is the same stuff official whiteboards are made from. These huge sheets are slick and work perfectly well with dry-erase markers. You can cover an entire wall for $50. You can also cut it into smaller pieces with a regular circular saw.
We have rooms at Google that are like this, and they’re great.
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March 9th, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Natalie Jeremijenko, the crazy (read: awesome) professor currently at UCSD (okay I’ve realized I can’t describe her in just one sentence) had these wall to wall in her Yale lab when Mike Lin and I worked there. If she hadn’t had so many shelves full of wonderful stuff, they would have been more useful. But terrific anyways!
March 9th, 2005 at 6:40 pm
i also have a friend (actually the guy who started WesMatch) that just recently painted his walls with Blackboard Chalk. also very, very cool.
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July 5th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Sorry guys i know this is not the best forum to ask for help but maybe there is somebody out there who understand something about Devisenhandel.
Well i read this article online about the forex being a good thing and all but i have heared that people get ripped off a lot.
This is why i am not asking this on a forex forum cause over there everybody will tell me that the devisenhandel is a great thing and all.
So my question is if somebody has experience with this here?
Thanks,
Marty
August 21st, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I was also inspired by the post of Kevin. The only problem I always had as a consultant is that large corporations will not stick this on the beautiful designed walls (unless you are from Mountainview
. They have restrictions on drilling in walls, glueing to it or hanging something from it.. So I figured out that I wanted an all installation-free whiteboardwall that also stores the markers (to keep it clean and clear) and is magnetic. Years later I was in the position to take that itch on as a chief designer and design this solution ourselves. It is not a $50 solution but helps the GE’s and Philips of these worlds collaborate in their nice corporate offices without one tube of glue needed. It is called sketchalot, from the company http://www.innvire.com .. (and I have no clue about devisenhandel – currencytrade? )