Our recreation department requested that we set them up a few kiosks so that they can handle registering people for events. The idea is to eliminate the paper and extra time involved with on site registrations and have 100% online registration. The requirements are:

• Very portable - easy to roll around to various parts of the building. Our current Children’s checkin kiosks would probably be a be cumbersome for this.
• Wireless - there might not be a network drop everywhere we need to do registration.
• Ability to for user to use it standing up.
• Secure - might not always been 100% supervised, so we need to keep people from doing bad things to the computer, surfing websites other than ours, etc.
• Ability to print confirmation pages to a network printer.

Below is I ended up putting together. Just got the “prototype” assembled last night. I still need to clean up the cabling a bit, but I think it’s going to work.

I’m running Provisio’s SiteKiosk software, which is really cool. It basically locks the user into a full screen browser with limited buttons, no address bar, and access only to specific URL’s. Once the machine is idle for 5 minutes, it will automatically revert back to the home page. A speciall keyboard driver filters out all of the windows special key and combinations. For example, you can’t use the windows key, ctrl-alt-del, alt-tab, and various other combinations. All in all, it’s a really cool setup.