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Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen?
Hogwash McFly writes "My boss gave me one of those USB-powered red LED scrolling displays as a Christmas gift, and while cycling the usual 'I read your emails' and 'ID10T Error' messages will be entertaining for a day or two, I was wondering if it could be put to more constructive uses. The configuration file is plaintext and supports different scroll speeds, flashing, bitmaps, and WAV sounds. The font is defined as 5x5 pixels per character, also stored in plaintext as 5 hex values, one for each vertical line of pixels. A dynamically generated message could prove useful in my day-to-day work on the helpdesk, but are there any interesting uses beyond network notifications and news feeds?"
Matrix screensaver.
A never ending game of pong
Put it in your window at home and use it to hollah for girls that pass by.
porn video => avi to ascii converter => red hot LED action
8=====D
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Unless you plan to put it in your car to give the finger to people honking at you in queue
Why give 'em the finger? You could generate messages instead:
"If you are close enough to read this, watch out for brake checks."
"This car protected by Smith & Wesson"
"If I passed you on the right you are in the wrong fucking lane"
"My kid beat up your honor student"
"Bad cop. No donut."
The possibilities are endless ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Never underestimate a technology's capacity to be used for porn.
Rumor has it that man learned to walk upright to free his hands for "other" uses ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
...have it display all new comments to this thread.
The other helpdesk people are going to be focused on their tasks, not glancing around the room for the possibility of some LED screen update. If there's an actual issue they need to know about, you should already have something in place for that.
What managers love to see are things like average call time, # calls in the queue, and # dropped calls. If you can extract that out of your call tree application and put that up there, you're one step closer to pointy hair yourself.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
>:)
I see... an Asteroids-esque space ship during reentry.
Game of Life?
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
I've been thinking it would be cool to get a sign like that and post it in a visible place at home, then use it to post announcements about my kids' accomplishments. I'd set it up so my wife could change it as well. We'd post things like "John did the dishes every day this week", "Mary aced her math test", etc.
The intent would be to show them we care and to give them positive reinforcement.
The result would be that not only will your kids know you're dorks, everyone else will too.
PC LOAD LETTER
Yeah, I can imagine the kids' horror when they bring over their friends, and have to explain why their parents are so lame. "Uhhh, what's that on the wall" "Nothing, my dad's just a dork" "Oh" "Come on, let's get out of here"
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Just pick a random day far in the future, And have it countdown to that day with the words, Only (insert time) until it happens! Then refuse to tell anyone what it means. It should provide interesting conversations at the water cooler.
Restore the madness of youth's lechery
Use it as a ticker to scroll the real-time DoHS advisory status:
That shows stocks rising and falling at the will of its owner! Make people sell their Google stock so you can buy it slightly cheaper.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
I call it spreading the love!
Stick it on ebay and with the money you receive go and enjoy the fast food meal of your choice!
AT&ROFLMAO
Better yet, coca of the month subscription?
I don't know any Idahoians here in Ohio, so I cannot answer your question. Well, I suppose I could answer "mu". :)
Post-rock/Ambient/Drone and other noise.
OK! Useful. Here's what you do...
The day before you leave on your next vacation, set it up so that it loops the message "I love you!" and then set up the .wav file of Barney the dinosaur singing his "I love you, you love me" theme song. Remove the socket covers from your cube wall and attach the electrical leads that power the device directly to the power lines, covering them with two-inch thick conduit. Then epoxy encapsulate that power connection really well (if the connection happens to be through a wall wart, be sure to conduit and encapsulate those connections as well). Disable any power switch the device might have and leave. When you get back from your vacation, your co-workers will have all either quit or committed suicide and your path to the next level up the corporate chain will be cleared. Repeat as necessary until you are CEO. Take golden parachute and leave. You win!
That is all.
Have you tried turning it off and on ?
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
"If you're going to ride my ass, at least buy me dinner first!"
Dude, what kind of disease do /you/ have? That's nasty...
"God was my copilot but I crashed in the mountains and had to eat him."
That sinking feeling deep in your gut when you KNOW you screwed up bad summed up with: {head desk} {head desk}
What does the second "T" stand for?
I've always wanted to do that. Seems like it would be fun to have something I can use to give people nasty or confusing messages with.
>:)
Jesus christ it's a .... Oh never mind.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
My favourite would be: Ever wondered why they're called fog lights, not it's-a-bit-cold-today lights?
A bit long, sadly.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Kind of like those safety signs at industrial sites that brag about the number of days without an accident.
Program the display so that the number of seconds continuously counts up, and then resets to zero after a random interval -- say thirty or forty seconds.
There was an episode of the X-Files where people started seeing messages in digital displays--microwave ovens, watches, radios, etc. I forget the story of that episode, but the messages always urged violence, and something about them made people snap and go berserk.
If I had one of those displays, I'd have it displaying something mundane and useful like news, but periodically it would flash KILL HIM and YES YOU and KILL THEM ALL and KILL THEM BEFORE THEY KILL YOU.
But then, I am a sicko.
That is a great idea. Certainly more novel than many of the others I've seen. And it gives you an excuse to talk to your computer without sounding crazy. Well, too crazy.
looks more like zoidberg with a paper hat, which is of course ridiculous, because he would have eaten it.
sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
FEED ME A CAT
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Just because the guy flying up my butt is anxious is no reason for me to be a dick.
You're doing it wrong.
Just have it blink 12:00 repeatedly.
They aren't tailgating, they're huddling to stay warm.