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Blinkenlights Reloaded - The Matrix Returns

Posted by timothy on from the but-with-better-dialogue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On the occasion of this year's Chaos Communication Congress some hackers of the German CCC have set up another Blinkenlights installation in Berlin (they use the glass facade of a house as a giant computer screen). It is on the same house as from September 2001 till February 2002 but with similar capabilities to the installation in Paris in September/October 2002. Heise has a story about this (German, here's the Google translation), but actually there's better information on the project website itself."

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  1. Just something to think about: by narfbot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just something to think about while it's slashdotted. At some point last year, I believe, the blinkenlights people added support into mplayer so that they can play back any video clips on the matrix. It should be interesting what they do this year.

  2. Re:When will the US get one?! by trentblase · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some crazy nerds at CMU did something like this a few years ago... played tetris on the side of a really big building.

  3. Paris Movies by semaj · · Score: 4, Interesting
    While the server's out for the count, you may wish to watch some clips from the last one they did in Paris:

    http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/Blinkenlights/

    Damn cool.
    "Blinkenlights Reloaded uses the technology we have developed for Arcade in Paris last year. That means greyscales. Version 3 of BlinkenPaint supports this as well as our new movie file format BML."
    So it'll look pretty similar, I imagine.
    --
    Meep meep
  4. Re:Achtung! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    See here if you want blinkenlights for your desktop computer.

  5. One Christmas in London... by futuramarama · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was walking past Selfridges dept. store and noticed their Christmas Lights display. It looked like the worst kind of modern art: a series of identical objects stacked against the window, with lights flashing randomly over them.

    But as I was going home by bus, I was far enough away (and the traffic jam gave me plenty of time to look) to notice the lights were using the objects as a billboard to scroll messages.

    It was wonderfully impressive to witness, even on that small scale.

    --
    "And that solves the mystery of the missing ring" - Bender
  6. Re:Ascii Matrix by bmsleight · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The first shots look like p0rn.

    Hummm what a good idea.

  7. Re:Page Text by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Celebrating its 20th anniversary

    It really amazes me just how much longevity the CCC has displayed, despite having gotten mixed up in scrambles that would have totally taken apart anyone less hardy. From concerns that one of their members might have been bumped off, working for the KGB, breaking into NASA... and somehow still finding time to run the Blinkenlights and the congress every year.

    I know I would have cashed my chips and left a group like that a long time ago. Hats off guys, how do you do it?

    YLFI
    --
    One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.