Lumina Project 2006
Ellen Driscoll, a wonderful artist, needed assistance with the creation of a animated LED sign for a public art project for the city of Boston.
I assisted, providing technical, and technically spiritual guidance — in the form of engineering design guidence, oversight, manufacturing assistance, part selection and procurement, debugging, Linux support, etc. Paul Badger spent many hours on the details of the design. MAKE created a truly impressive enclosure.
The sign is about 6 feet high, and contains over two thousand blue LED’s. The animation is controlled by an Arm based single board computer running Linux.
http://www.ellendriscoll.net/update/recent_brightanime.htm