Podcasting Cart

mobile podcasting cart

Located at 1045 Public Affairs, the Podcasting In Place/Portable INstallation Cart (PIPPIN) is now available to help UCLA faculty, staff, and students who want the ability to record solely their voices for lectures and podcasts. As this medium has become the norm for consuming media and information on the go, this cart provides the ability to record lectures and intellectual conversations in the highest quality. Audio recordings are something that cannot be fixed with editing, therefore it is a great benefit to those who don’t have access to quality microphones.

This cart includes four microphones, four sets of headphones, a Zoom recorder (not Zoom the app!), and various cabling all enclosed in a cart. The Zoom recorder records the four different microphones onto four separate audio files on an SD card. SD card adapters (both USB and USB-C) are available to borrow to copy the files.

All recordings must be copied to either the user’s personal laptop or uploaded to a cloud-based storage. Once the user has left their recording session, HumTech is not responsible for maintaining and/or storing any recordings.

Reserving PIPPIN

All UCLA students, faculty, and staff are able to reserve the podcasting cart for academic purposes.

The podcasting cart is available to reserve on weekdays between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm.

For reservations, please refer to the schedule below and fill out this form (UCLA login required).

Scheduling priority will be given to Humanities classes that best utilize available resources. Scheduling conflicts after considering resource utilization, will be prioritized in the order received.

Please note that we require at least a week’s notice for use of the podcasting cart to arrange staffing.