With a vertical bar of 7 or 8 LEDs, present a scan of the matrix of the characters in the message you wish to present. Ideally there should also be a row of lights or some other object that the eyes would track past your column of LEDs. What you'd get is a message that would appear then someone scans their eyes across your display and disappears when they look straight at it. A coworker told me LAMOMA has (had?) a sign like that you could see from the freeway.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:38:27AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > On 08/21/2001 12:11:18 PM dixon wrote: > > >> Hi everybody, > >> I'm writing a test program for the leds on a network box that my company > >> is building and I was looking for suggestions/ideas on a test that would > >> be cool and flashy. We want to run it at trade shows and stuff. I was > >> thinking of something like blinking SOS. > > Uh, no. If you blink SOS, you'll have everyone who knows morse code > repeatedly rebooting the thing, or disassembling it because there is a > small person trapped inside trying to send a help message. > > 1) Have it blink propoganda like "use debian gnu/linux". > > 2) Have it blink your companies name in morse code. > > 3) Extra brownie points if it blinks out your bosses name. Negative points > if it blinks out your bosses name followed by " ... is a jerk" > > 4) Have it blink out it's load average or temperature or number of lusers > logged in or uptime > > 5) Have it blink out the source code for decss in morse code, etc. > > 6) Have it sniff passwords going thru the network and blink them out in > morse code. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >