October 12, 2026 at 3:18 pm, No comments For small AV integrators, the difference between a chaotic installation and a flawless one often comes down to a single document: the rack diagram. A rack diagram software solution serves as the blueprint that translates a list of equipment into a precise, buildable rack elevation—showing exactly where […]
I volunteer at my local junior AFL club and my role as club registrar grants access to a sports management platform called PlayHQ. It’s a rich source of data so for the end of the 2026 season, I thought it would be fun to use some of that data to create a season summary in […]
November 6, 2026 at 3:51 pm, No comments This guide covers what to look for, how the main tool categories compare, and why XTEN-AV X-DRAW deserves a place on any integrator’s shortlist. Every professional AV project starts as an idea and ends as a set of drawings. Between the two sit signal flow diagrams, wiring […]
From postal points to areas using Voronoi polygons 13 min. I recently published my project Postal codes of Spain, with estimated postal areas, an interactive map and GeoPackage downloads. But there is something we have not looked at yet: how do those address points become polygons? The answer is… Voronoi polygons. What is a Voronoi […]
October 13, 2026 at 3:47 pm, No comments If you manage audiovisual systems for a college or university, you already know the pain of juggling AutoCAD files, scattered spreadsheets, and a dozen manufacturer PDFs just to document a single classroom. A Higher Ed AV platform exists specifically to solve that problem — bringing classroom design, […]
Clinical medicine is by far the largest field in the 2026 Stanford–Elsevier top 2% list: 76,155 of the 249,310 listed authors, 31%, have it as their main field, more than the next three of the 20 fields combined. I wanted to know where those scientists work, and whether the country ranking still looks the same […]
October 26, 2026 at 5:07 pm, No comments If you run an AV integration business, you already know the pain: a designer finalizes a system, an estimator rebuilds the equipment list in Excel, a salesperson reformats everything in Word, and somewhere between three different spreadsheets and a PDF attachment, numbers stop matching. This is exactly […]
Ask a large language model a question about your data, and you’ll probably get a confident answer. Ask it again, and you might get a different one. Sometimes, neither answer is correct. That’s a problem if you’re building an AI agent other people need to use. How do you get dependable results from it, and […]
Writing automated tests for software has always been a touchy subject for engineers, even experienced ones. Most teams often view this activity as an afterthought or really only start to consider it when the product has gotten some traction and money or brand reputation are on the line. The reality is that if you don’t […]
October 22, 2026 at 4:02 pm, No comments One tap, and the lights dim, the screen drops, and the movie starts. That seamless experience is powered by well-designed residential AV systems working behind the scenes. As homes become smarter and more connected, residential AV systems have shifted from a luxury extra to a core part […]
