Blinkenlights @ Chaos Communication Camp 2003

cavac writes "From 07.-10. August, we from the Chaos Computer Club have another Chaos Communication Camp. Please be sure to visit us at the BlinkenArea, a place where we show the newest projects and technology derived of Blinkenlights, the famous installation on Berlin's 'House of the Teacher'."

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Das Blinkenlights

[DJPenguin]

ACHTUNG!!!

Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen
der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht
fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands
in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!!!

-- UNIX fortune(6)

Re:Das Blinkenlights

[jpsst34]

Google:
The machine is not fur gefingerpoken and mittengrabben. Easy snatches if that is jumping work, blowenfusen and corkenpoppen with sharpen-park. Is not fur trades by the dummkopfen. The rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in pockets. Relaxen and vatch blinkenlights!!!

Babelfish: The machine is not fur gefingerpoken and mittengrabben. Easy snatches if that is jumping work, blowenfusen and corkenpoppen with sharpen-park. Is not fur trades by the dummkopfen. The rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in pockets. Relaxen and vatch blinkenlights!!!

Re:Das Blinkenlights

[arvindn]

There's also a corollary:

This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights.

BlinkenArea, sans SSL:

[llamalicious]

BlinkenArea

slashdot

[dema]

So is slashdot news for nerds or advertisment for nerds? I find it easy to get mixed up at times.

BlnkenWars

[te amo]

telnet www.blinkenlights.nl

Re:BlnkenWars

[pldms]

Cool. And I'm connected using ipv6. Like the future ... but with ascii animation.

Sounds like trouble...

[amishgeek]

Im sorry officer! I was just playing pong on that building over there with my mobile phone and I didnt see that car in front of me... What? That guy was playing pong too??!?!?!?

Going camping? Don't forget your 21'' monitor

[arcanumas]

I took the picture from this site. I will show it to my friends and tell them "If you ever see me going to camping with a computer and a 21'' monitor, shoot me."

Seriously, i too love computer gatherings but isn't going to camping a little too much? (I think there is also a Userfriendly comic strip with this subject.)
I just don't understand why it is cool to do a Pc/Hacking gathering in a tent.. maybe i am getting old..

Re:Going camping? Don't forget your 21'' monitor

[Trigun]

I thought all gamers hated campers?

Re:Going camping? Don't forget your 21'' monitor

[andreas]

Hey, we've been doing this since before slashdot existed. And the point of an open-air gathering is that you actually get some sun and oxygen, without getting Internet withdrawal symptoms after a day.

Not just Blinkenlights...

[andreas]

The Chaos Communication Camp will also host the Gimp Developers Conference, and a meeting of the Discordian Section of the Knights of the Lambda Calculus (that's Lisp hackers, for the uninitiated).

I'll bring my Lisp Machine, complete with Space Cadet keyboard.

I can see it now...

[deman1985]

First this little office building... Next it will be a whole city block... Pretty soon I'll be able to play games from my private jet with my mile-diagonal screen on the ground...

Re:I can see it now...

[cavac]

You know, we DO live in the space-age. And the astronouts on ISS are getting bored on their extended missions ;-)

Please note:

[Anonymous Coward]

All www.ccc.de URLs are available over HTTPS. Encrypt all communication whenever possible, not just when you deem the content important enough to prevent eavesdropping.

Blinkenlights is evil.

[Anonymous Coward]

Every 12.4 seconds brief subliminal messages are displayed in the Blinkenlights display. Some, not all, of them were captured using high speed video:

Obey

Marry and Reproduce

Consume
This is exactly how Sarah Conner saw it starting.

2600

[Anonymous Coward]

They also made the winter 2003 cover of 2600 - Hacker Quarterly

I have absolutely nothing to say

[EvilTwinSkippy]

I've been waiting 20 minutes for a meeting to start, and I managed to commandeer an unattended computer with a Net connection for a minute.

This article has made my day. Hell, it reminds me of the time my uncle gave me a few bucks to design a "switch simulator." I cleaned out the LED supplies at 4 Radio shacks, and assembled a psuedo-random blinking light pattern. He needed something to fill in an empty rack at the data center.

For kicks it included a voice recorder chip, and speed adjust. A miracle what can be accomplished with a few NAND chips, NOR chips, a BCD counter, and a whole lot of solder.

Hint for kids trying this at home, tie the LED's to the supply (+), and let the discreet components open the return (-) part of the circuit. 60 LEDs consume a surpisingly large amount of current. Forrest E. Mims is your friend...