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IMDb:
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LEGO (C) Hand Held Stabilizer

xox,
Dead Nancy

Several similar projects preceded the Berlin Blinkenlights.

La Bastille: A Tech House Installation, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
10 x 10 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/ [techhouse.org]
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/16/2148245.shtm l [slashdot.org]

Marnix 2001, Brussels, Belgium
52 x 7 matrix of RGB lights
Links:
http://marnix2001.bbl.be/ [marnix2001.bbl.be]

MIT's Green Building Sound (VU) Meter, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
9 x 1 matrix of red lights
Links:
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1993/green_bldg _vu_meter/green_bldg_vu_meter.html [mit.edu]

Clickscape 98, Linz, Austria
13 x 8 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.servus.at/clickscape98/ [servus.at]

Poli-uni students dorm, Warsaw, Poland
14 x 16 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.astercity.net/~kvas/riviera.jpg [astercity.net]

But then again, you could always just play ping-pong (Coffee and Cats warning.)

I gathered similar projects into a single comment. I know that this is redundant, strictly speaking, but I'll post anyway. It's much more accessible this way. I'm knocking on the karma cap anyway, so no, this isn't whoring, just risking to get modded down for redundancy. Enough blabber, here we go:

Chaos Computer Club Blinkenlights, Berlin, Germany
18 x 8 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.blinkenlights.de/

KPN Building, Rotterdam, Netherlands
22 x 44 matrix of green lights
Links:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/makiueda/climbman/index-e.h tml
http://www.blezer2.myweb.nl/rotterdam2000/building s/kpn.html

La Bastille: A Tech House Installation, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
10 x 10 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/16/2148245.shtm l

Marnix 2001, Brussels, Belgium
52 x 7 matrix of RGB lights
Links:
http://marnix2001.bbl.be/

TU-Delft Electro Technology SMS-Display, Delft, Netherlands
264 lights (unknown configuration), displayed mobile phone short messages
Links:
http://etv.its.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/stunt .php

TU-Delft Electro Technology Tetris, Delft, Netherlands
10 x 15 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://etv.et.tudelft.nl/commissies/lustrum/90/eng lish.html

MIT's Green Building Sound (VU) Meter, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
9 x 1 matrix of red lights
Links:
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1993/green_bldg _vu_meter/green_bldg_vu_meter.html

Clickscape 98, Linz, Austria
13 x 8 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.servus.at/clickscape98/

Poli-uni students dorm, Warsaw, Poland
14 x 16 matrix of white lights
Links:
http://www.astercity.net/~kvas/riviera.jpg

here poli-uni students dorm in Warsaw.

Some additional information - flat rate access is now available here either via cable or a form or DSL.

Cable companies in bigger cities offer Internet access for some time now (example) - rates vary, but it is quite inexpensive even by local standards - no more than $25 a month and a reasonable installation fee. Disadvantages: you don't get real IP addresses (clients are behind an IP masquerading router), quality of service varies (mostly 2 MB within the cable company network which in turn has 2 MB to a backbone operator) and it is available only in limited areas.

Other form of access is Home Internet Solution (based on Ericson's hardware) which is sold by TP S.A. (local telco monopolist) as SDI for $225 installation and $35 monthly fee. It is available in all bigger cities and is becoming quite popular despite being expensive initially. Advantages: you get real IP address (just one, but it's possible to set up a server on this kind of connection), speed - 128 kbps.