How it works

Three things, and no proprietary hardware.

There is no proprietary box, no dongle and no per-screen licence key. The wall is a web page running full-screen on a panel you bought yourself.

A screen

Any commercial touchscreen. We publish a one-page specification and you buy it on your own purchase order, at list, from whoever you like. We take no margin on hardware and we don’t want to own your warranty.

We recommend a 55" portrait panel over a 75". It is more of the glass within ADA reach, and the pixels are finer.

A small computer

A fanless mini PC behind the panel, around $200. It boots straight into the wall. We give you the image and the settings; your facilities staff mount it like a television.

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The software, the admin, the hosting and the updates. One monthly price, billed once a year, that doesn’t change with how many screens you put it on.

Getting your people in

Forty years, in an afternoon.

Most schools have their hall of fame in a spreadsheet, a plaque, or somebody’s memory. Paste the spreadsheet — tabs or commas, straight out of Excel — and you get a preview before anything is created.

Everything lands as a draft. Nothing appears on the wall until you publish it. Rows that couldn’t be imported are listed individually with the reason, because a row that quietly vanishes is worse than one that fails loudly.

Photographs

Scan what you have. A creased 1958 team photo is fine — the wall tones everything through one warm ramp so a halftone from a yearbook and a phone picture from last spring sit together without one looking worse than the other. We do not use AI to “restore” faces. Adding detail that was never in the record is not something we will do on a wall carrying a real person’s name.

The roster. The column that matters is the reason each person is on the wall.

Once it’s on the wall

It looks after itself.

Network goes down	The wall keeps running from its own cache. Every portrait is stored on the panel.
You add an inductee	The screen notices within a minute and refreshes itself — but only while nobody is using it, so it never reloads out from under a visitor.
Somebody walks away mid-visit	It returns to its resting state on its own rather than staying on one person’s page indefinitely.
Nobody is in the lobby	It performs the interaction — a portrait is chosen, comes forward and is named. A screen on a wall reads as a television until something on it visibly responds.
A screen stops reporting	You see it in the admin console. A frozen panel can otherwise go unnoticed for weeks.