[Noisebridge-discuss] hacklab.to LED sign engineering

Jonathan Lassoff jof at thejof.com
Tue Feb 3 11:18:58 UTC 2009


Encapsulated within <20090203102802.GS2508 at wilmington.dreamhost.com> on Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:28:02AM -0800, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
> From: Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com>
> To: Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com>
> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>,
> 	noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] hacklab.to LED sign engineering
> 
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:24:51AM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> 
> > Actually, this is very dissimilar from our sign. The sign we have is
> > manufactured by JVF and consists of one solid board of lights rather
> > than separate modules as shown here.
> 
> Err, ours has four daughterboards of lights which aren't entirely
> dissimilar from these.  I didn't know the manufacturer offhand,
> though, so apparently Canada actually was a hotbed of LED sign
> manufacture.  What a curious fact...

I'm not so sure. IIRC, there were four daughterboards (with the latches) that connect to one big main board of LEDs.

> 
> (Also, Nils has been doing excellent things.  I'm hoping he has solid
> progress to share before he disappears from our fair coast for a week.
> Time will tell, but it's exciting progress.  It's nice to have someone
> who does micros for real working on this, instead of me, who's
> cutting-edge circa 1987 or so.)

Can't wait to see what happens!

--j



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