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The Lights Keep on Blinken

Posted by michael on from the fingerpoken-good dept.

cavac writes "At the 19th Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin/Germany developers showed their newest developments for the closed-down Blinkenlights-Project. One of the projects was the Blinkenlights Fileserver Project. Members of this team developed a protocol and some tools similar to ftp, which you can use to share Blinkenlights-Movies. Today, a first Beta-Version was released. You might want to check it out. (It also includes the famous Telnet-Blinkenlights-Player). We are still searching people willing to help us developing this software even more or to work with us on "Phase II": Implementing Soft- and Hardware for a Hardware-Based Blinkenlights Player. This will most likely based on one of Zilog's new Development Kits - the "Z8 Encore!"."

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  1. Consideration... by Ozan · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Install fancy blinking lights in a building
    2. Controll these lights to show various animations, attracting people to stare at them
    3. Show animated ads in size of a whole building with this technology
    4. Profit!!

    Now if I only knew what to put in step 3... uh wait a second...