Dormitory Turned Into Huge Color Display

macson_g writes "Students from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) once again turned one of their dormitories into huge display. The project is called P.I.W.O. (B.E.E.R.). This time they converted a 10-story building into 4-color, 12x10 display. The business was used to display animations, and to play interactive games as well. On the project page (in Polish, Google translation here) you can watch an almost hour-long video, featuring music videos, a Tetris session, a dancing Michael Jackson, Duke Nukem and Mario."

Comments

Resolution?

[pscott56]

What is the maximum resolution of a dorm these days? Not like those high end skyscrapers...

badass

[BeaverCleaver]

A truly neat project. Are employers impressed by such feats? They should be. Does any body have more information of this? what sort of microcontrollers used, networking protocols...

Also the social engineering is impressive. I wouldn't have had much success asking other residents to put banks of lightglobes in their windows where I went to university, but at my school we did have an inordinate number of whiny law student types.

Re:badass

[BiggerIsBetter]

In my university the only thing you see on dorm windows is stacked bottles of beer. Seriously.

You went to the wrong school. At my university the dorm windows were full of stacked coeds. Seriously. :-P

Re:badass

[lewko]

Admit it - You only know that because you read about it on IRC one Saturday night, when everyone else had gone out.

Re:badass

[LordRobin]

I dunno, man. Watching this today, I thought it was incredibly cool. But when I was in college 20 years ago, I was a different person. It was a difficult time for me, socially, and my dorm room was the only place I could "get away" when I needed to. I think I might have been a little bitter if I was told I had to let someone in to wire up lights, and essentially be kicked out on show night ('cuz it's not like you could study or sleep in there when the show was on). I find it hard to believe that with as many as 240 students affected, there wasn't at least one poor schmuck who just wanted to be left alone.

I guess I'm just saying that I hope this wasn't crammed down everyone's throats without giving them a choice.

------RM

In related news...

[Seriousity]

The Slashdot news template is converted into an image display!

No seriously, if you can insert an image into the summary why is it such a rarity?

Amazing what you can do with 120 pixels

[amirulbahr]

Whilst technically not very interesting, it was good to watch nonetheless and no doubt would have been a quite a sight in person. What is more interesting though is just how much content they were able to squeeze into 12x10 4-colour pixels.

Blinkenlicht

[knappe duivel]

Also done by Chaos Computer Club in Berlin in 2001, called Blinkenlicht. http://www.blinkenlights.net/

In Finland too, back in 2007

[Zarhan]

The biggest apartment building in nordic countries, when undergoing renovation, was set up in a similar fashion...see http://www.mikontalolights.fi/en/

Includes a video.

Re:Name of the first song on the video?

[Zeussy]

Nice! Does anyone know the name of the first song on the hour long video? That's a really nice chiptune.

Well, it was driving me insane as I have been listening to Chiptune songs for the last 2-3weeks, and I knew I had heard it, so after a search through my play list, here it is:

Mr. Spastic - Sloppy

His album and many great others can be got for free (under creative commons) from 8bit Peoples

Re:This has been done before

[AHuxley]

Then get me his non-union Polish equivalent!

Re:B.E.E.R.???

[Anonymous Coward]

"Piwo" as a word in Polish means beer.