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= The Big LED Screen =
 
{{headerbox}}'''The Big LED Screen''' is Noisebridge's first piece of LED art, a big LED screen salvaged and made to work running Conway's Game of Life since [[83c]].
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The sign in its original form when we found it and had to figure out how to reverse engineer it.
 
[[File:Nbbigledsignhackonme.jpg|800px]]


=== Overview ===
=== Overview ===
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* The 386 connects via ISA to a "buffer board" which looks to be a memory buffer and power conditioner.
* The 386 connects via ISA to a "buffer board" which looks to be a memory buffer and power conditioner.
* The "buffer board" has most traces terminating to a socket with a missing chip, so we don't know what happened here.
* The "buffer board" has most traces terminating to a socket with a missing chip, so we don't know what happened here.
** ''I have a somewhat different version.  The missing chip I think you are referring to is a floppy drive controller.  In my version the floppy drive is connected to the LED driver board there on the top left connector which then feeds through and shares the same ISA connector.  -dpg  (sorry if this was an inappropriate way to add a comment.)''
   
   
==== Buffer board ====
==== Buffer board ====
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=== Getting the source ===
=== Getting the source ===
The source is available on GitHub at the following location: https://github.com/miloh/bigledscreen/
A guide for using GitHub can be found here https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/


'''The following is historical'''
The source is in a mercurial repository on [[pony]].  Point your mercurial client at http://pony.local/d3/nils/bigledscreen to pull down a copy of it.
The source is in a mercurial repository on [[pony]].  Point your mercurial client at http://pony.local/d3/nils/bigledscreen to pull down a copy of it.


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For further information, UTSL.
For further information, UTSL.
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