Hi Ethan,
--- Paul Braun <nerdware_at_laidbak.com> wrote:
> Hey, group.
>
> A friend of mine just acquired one of those big programmable
> highway emergency signs (the one with the little flourescent flip
> segments).
Does the Highway Department know? ;-)
I've always wanted to play with that sort of thing. The flippy
segments
are cool, but several square feet of LEDs is cool, too. I wouldn't
do it
with a mechanical display, but an electronic one would make a cool
binary
clock.
If you want lots of lights get an old electronic fruit machine (bandit).
I was given one as scrap and it has over 400 12v bulbs (standard
car instrument lights) in a matrix with the driver cards. Very pretty
Xmas lights.
Cheers,
Lee.
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