January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
13h 33m
English
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Part II: Advanced Hacks, Tools, and Techniques
The Berlin Blinkenlights installation was planned and built in four weeks,
and ran for 23 weeks and 5 days in total. Even today, the Chaos Computer
Club (also known as the CCC) continues to improve the system, and they
have released the software for free under the GPL. Linux and PDA-based
tools and simulators for creating animations and images for the system can
be found at the Blinkenlights web site (http://www.blinkenlights.de/).
In this chapter, I will first describe how to build a smaller version that can
use the side of your house instead of a twelve-story building for the display
area. Next, I will describe how to build the project as it was implemented
in Berlin.
If you decide to wire up a large building, I would suggest that you get
together a group of friends to help out. There is a lot of wiring required to
set up this hack. If you build the smaller “home” version, you can probably
wire it yourself.
I would like to thank Björn Barnekow (programming, design), Fiedel (elec-
tronics), Packet (programming), Papillon (installation), Prom (program-
ming), Sven Neumann (programming), Tim Pritlove (project coordination),
Tobias Engel (programming), and the entire Chaos Computer Club for
their support and information. I would also like to thank Rene Schneider
for his contribution to the small-scale hardware ...
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