Wow, simpsons on an LED display, that’s awesome.

Posted at 9:05 pm on Nov 14th, 2008 by john

watch?v=ti_soK51y-Q has the Simpson display.

Posted at 7:39 am on Nov 15th, 2008 by Adam Ziegler

Wow… just realized that HAD doesn’t actually upper->lower case the stored input. It is handled with a style of text-transform: lowercase;

Posted at 7:43 am on Nov 15th, 2008 by Adam Ziegler

ssh! no one is supposed to know!

Posted at 9:22 am on Nov 15th, 2008 by Forrest Voight

Very awesome. It’s amazing how you can still make out what pretty much everything is on such a low res display. Very cool.

Posted at 9:23 am on Nov 15th, 2008 by Tony

@ Adam, I figured that out during the whole CAPSLOCKS day thing. Even posted about it. All you need to override it is a user css and adding a
* { text-transform: none !important;}

line to it. Poof, no more forced lowercase or caps on any site.

Also, Sprite’s the man.

Posted at 12:15 pm on Nov 15th, 2008 by cde

It’s interesting as a hack and he (and we) learned some stuff and he showed prowess, but really, by the end he must have put more cash in the project than the cost of a 22″ LCD, that’s the kind of thing that would hold me back, basically it’s done already (LCD=dotmatrix too) and available at shops, and I don’t really see a need for it.

Posted at 1:17 pm on Nov 15th, 2008 by Wwhat

@ Wwhat:

Considering that part of the project started out as funded by his job and them paying him to do what he enjoys, as well as the “I built it my goddamn self” bragging rights. Add that he probably had the discretes and the AVR’s already, so just had to buy the (Used and discounted) led displays (5€ each, so 10 * €5 = 50€) it more then balances out. (Comes out to about 12 USD per LED Display + AVR). Worthwhile I would say.

Posted at 1:46 pm on Nov 15th, 2008 by cde

actually he didn’t buy ten 32×16 led matrices but 8×8 and combined the 8 of them into a 32×16 display…Just thought to mention that :)

Posted at 11:58 pm on Nov 15th, 2008 by Dim

disregard that , i didnt read carefully the article :)

Posted at 12:01 am on Nov 16th, 2008 by Dim

I have 4 of these as well, I got them from the same source as sprite.

They are old bus station displays, that’s why they’re so cheap.
If you watch closely in the video’s you can see the burnt-in leds from the bus-numbers etc…

Posted at 1:37 pm on Nov 16th, 2008 by henk