January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
13h 33m
English
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Chapter 8, How to Hack a Building-Size Display
Software Setup Instructions
There are two versions of the software that you can run depending on
which size system you have built. If you’re building the large building-size
system, go to the Large-scale software section. If you’re building the home
or desktop system, go to the Small-scale software section.
Large-scale software
Three computers are used to control the building-size Blinkenlights system.
Although it would have been possible to put it all on one system, the CCC
decided to separate the modules (control, playback, telephone interactiv-
ity) in order to allow distributed development and operation. Since the
modules communicate using standard network protocols, you can run all
of the software on a single machine. Control of the system is from either
an email interface or from a GSM mobile phone. This flow of data can be
seen in Figure 8-23.
Download the software from http://www.blinkenlights.de/blinkentools.
en.html and install it according to the included files. The site also includes a
software simulator that allows you to design and preview animations with-
out having to first set up the hardware. You may want to play around with
the software simulator first to get a feel for how the processes interact.
The software is partitioned into three components:
• Chaos Control Center (the module na ...
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