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During Technology Department team meetings, staff noticed that there was a need for a way to manage both iPads and iPod Touch devices. 

The problem? If you don’t have some type of multi-sync and recharging solution–which allows you to load apps (or programs and documents) onto the device while charging the battery–you have to do each device ONE BY ONE. Now, one by one may seem like OK when you’re dealing with a personal device, but if you have a class set of devices, you are going to spend quite a bit of time plugging in and unplugging devices to load apps AND recharge their batteries.
Once you get up to 10-12 devices, whether they are iPads or iPod Touch devices, you’re wasting a considerable amount of time providing support. When you get up to more than 12 devices, you’ll need to invest in a $2500 cart–similar to the one below–that enables the work.

The rear view of the solution–all of which is made of wood–appears below and features a place to store the external USB hard drive:

Total capacity for this DIY iPad Sync/Charging Unit is 12 iPads, one Macbook Pro, 1 external USB drive and assorted USB hubs that can charge iPads. 

Pretty nifty!

Full disclosure: I wrote the blog entry I reference above. 😉

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