This is one of those WTF! issues.
I come into the Digital Media room and find the 3D Scanner Cart with the dedicated computer and monitor PARTED OUT.
BTW, I recovered the monitor. It works just fine. Before you part out the 3D scanner setup, check to see if the computer is locked in dual monitor mode. Maybe thatās why you thought (if you were thinking) the monitor and computer were toast. Basic windows knowledge would have allowed you to diagnose this elementary school problem. I would like the USB hub returned ASAP. It was used to help students and users use this equipment. Next time ask before you destroy.
This is a piece of equipment that no-one was using until I put the cart together and figured out how to use the scanner successfully.
I had been teaching the class weekly last year to great success and the scanner was being used regularly by others because they knew how to use it.
So what is up with the total lack of respect? To remove the monitor and then PUT in on the donation shelf. Yes, thatās where I found it. I have not found the usb hub that was attached.
I had been maintaining it weekly so that others could enjoy it and use it for their projects.
Why would some individual disconnect the monitor from the 3D scanner cart and then move it to the Donation shelf? It was a perfectly good monitor. It was being used regularly by many people and for the class I was teaching.
The only thing I can think of that would motivate someone to part out a piece of equipment that was being used regularly and then put on the the donation shelf, is thievery. 'Oh look, a monitor on the donation shelf, I could use that." The USB hub, that was double sided sticky taped to the cart of the 3D scanner, is gone. Thievery. The other USB hub that was in the digital media room and was being used is gone. Thievery.
OK, so maybe at best this was just a big mistake by someone and their motivation was not to steal from the members of the DMS. For sure, absolutely, this was an individual who has no regard for the other members, has no respect for the work and time that others put in to make this place better for others. This is a person who doesnāt even have the decency to ask around to see if someone or many people are using this 3D scanner with itās monitor, with itās USB hub and the convenience that it is all put together on one cart.
Iām looking at the 3D scanner and the cart right now and itās all torn up. Iāll have to put it all back together before I teach my next class this Sunday. This is totally unacceptable.
Maybe their motivation was that they just donāt want anyone using the 3D scanner anymore or teaching the class. Sounds selfish and self serving.
Shame on you, whoever you are for doing this. You are not an asset to the DMS community.
