The project is functional as of now, the team has made one mainboard and 5 daughter boards so they can controll 25 screens (a 10*10 matrix). It’s running smoothly animations (we can achieve a 30 fps) but now we need to make it better : more screens, a better API, few games (pong, snake, etc), more screens, etc.). So this hack is never ending :)

The main problem is the fact it consumes a lot of power (5Kw as of now) and it is not easy to move around, but we’re working on it to make it a long time installation in our school (http://www.isen.fr/)

Posted at 8:55 am on Jun 6th, 2008 by Julien Brouchier a.k.a. Aqntbghd

Putting their entire write up in a picture was a bit strange, that kind of makes it so they can’t be found by search engines as easily.

Posted at 11:32 am on Jun 6th, 2008 by Mike

I suppose it takes less energy to run than the original >22KW Blinkenlights, and it is cheaper and friendlier than letting those crts hit the landfill, but I’d like to see something to cut power consumption.

Posted at 12:19 pm on Jun 6th, 2008 by Solenoidclock

the crt moniter i have (rather old one) goes through a similar sequence if left with no signal for 30 secs but rather then just boxes it makes some weird effects ……… the first time it had started i thought my video card was going to need an exorsisem or something

Posted at 2:42 pm on Jun 30th, 2008 by dravin21