After several months of planning, design, prototyping, and assembly ... our new checkin kiosks arrived today! Well, mostly arrived...the front doors are not yet finished...but we were happy to have them sans doors.
These kiosks were designed and built by hand by a master craftsman that attends Granger ... and they look awesome! A good bit a brainstorming went into creating something that matched the excellent looks of our building, was very functional, and didn't cost a too much.
I snapped some pictures you'll see below, but they don't do them justice. The lighter colored wood is hard maple and the dark wood is cherry. The top of the lid is a sweet looking stainless steel-like laminate. I'm amazed at how light these are and how easy they are to roll around ... like butta.
I'm kickin' myself for not taking a before/after picture of what our checkin area used to look like ... suffice it to say it was very generic and unexciting and took 4- 6 man hours each week to setup/teardown. Setup/teardown will now be a breeze!!!
So enough yakin' 'bout them ... on with the images ... 
Here's what people will see when they check in their kids on the main level South...
You can click on the pics to get a closer view.
A door will cover the exposed shelving in the near future.
Andy will now demonstrate how to close up the unit...
Just slide the top shelf forward...
Place the monitor onto the shelf below...
Lift the top lid up...
Lower the top lid...
TAA DAA!!
We're excited to hear the oooh's and aaaah's during children's checkin this weekend ... these are just so dang kewl!
And yes, we did have a model that would have kept us from moving the monitor up and down, but that functionality wasn't worth the increased cost multiplied across 10 units.
I'll post the final product once the doors are installed which should be in about 2 weeks.
UPDATE: see updated images and get contact info for the company that designed these for us HERE
Those are very very cool! I think I'll swipe those pictures for future reference. ;)
Posted by: Brian Glass | June 18, 2005 at 08:30 AM
Very impressive. Did Andy used to work on "The Price is Right?"
Posted by: Tony Morgan | June 18, 2005 at 09:07 AM
Thanks for the comments Tony. It was actually the Wheel of Fortune where I got most of my experience. They decided the contrast of the big letters would be a better fit by someone with blond hair, and frankly I wasn't willing to wear a sequin dress (or a pink shirt).
Posted by: Andy | June 18, 2005 at 11:03 AM
Awesome! They look REALLY nice!!
Posted by: Nathan Jones | June 18, 2005 at 02:41 PM
Nathan - did you know I used to work just up the street from ya in Zion ... at Zion-Benton High School ... small world eh? :-)
Posted by: Jason Powell | June 18, 2005 at 03:48 PM
Jason they look awesome!
Posted by: Terry Chapman | June 19, 2005 at 05:53 PM
You really should get the craftsman to sell those - they look really neat.
Posted by: Andy | June 20, 2005 at 10:42 AM
Those look great!
Posted by: Sarge | June 20, 2005 at 10:54 AM
These look great and very functional!! Great Job!
Posted by: Scott | June 20, 2005 at 03:31 PM
I'm a newbie to this blog. Sweet lookin' stations. What process did you have before these stations? What software do you have running on these stations for checkin?
thanks,
Ron
Posted by: Ron Fast | June 20, 2005 at 05:09 PM
Hi Ron,
Before using Fellowship One (www.fellowshiptech.com) we did child checkin by hand ... the switch has allowed us to process checkins MUCH faster and have historical data we did not have prior amoung other things.
Just do a search of my blog for "checkin" and you'll get the scoop.
Jason
Posted by: Jason Powell | June 23, 2005 at 09:36 AM
How much were these?
Posted by: Matt Wilson | October 26, 2005 at 01:59 PM
Jason, would you guys (or your master craftsman) be willing to part with scematics for those kiosks? Can I ask you cost to build (using volunteers)? Has your master craftsman considered making them for sale?
We're doing live very shortly, and this is the piece we don't have a permanent solutions to, plus there's other church in our area needed to solve the kiosk things as well.
Thanks!
Troy
Posted by: Troy Austian | November 08, 2005 at 02:29 PM
Jason,
BTW - Cornerstone Cabinetry just launched their website.
It is at http://www.CornerstoneCabinetry.net.
Andy
Posted by: Andy Hosier | February 21, 2006 at 05:15 PM
I think the Kiosks looks great!
Posted by: Hector | March 11, 2006 at 02:05 PM
If you are planning your next generation of kiosks with Mac computers, make sure to look at http://ecrisper.com
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