Project Blinkenlights

▲ Project Blinkenlights(blinkenlights.de)

30 points by doener 2 hours ago | 12 comments

▲ jolt42 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is this still well recognized?

ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

	▲	bradrn an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes! I know it! (And I’m not old at all.) I saw it at, as I recall, a model train exhibition when I was very young, and I found it so hilarious I’ve never forgotten it. In fact I was quite surprised when I eventually learned it was a well-known thing, considerably older than I am.
	▲	jdsnape an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have a letterpress print of this from the Cambridge (UK) museum of technology when I was a kid (so about 30 years ago I guess!). I love the juxtaposition between letterpress and the idea of relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten

▲ pjot an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thought this was the ascii Star Wars in your terminal à la

  telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

▲ sunir 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I was younger, I was in Berlin and wandered unannounced into the Chaos Computer Club and I met Tim there. What a legend.

The whole club is legendary. We need more of their spirit of the art of the possible and irreverent. Life is for the living, and computers are for the hackers.

▲ positive_sec an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So nice to see this here! We were inspired by Project Blinkenlights to conceive BlinkenCity, a city-wide installation of the same idea (abusing the radio-controllable individually-addressable street lamps in many German cities): https://positive.security/blog/blinkencity-38c3

▲ Animats 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Downtown Shenzhen is rigged for that.

For a while, the SF Bay Bridge was. I once went to an Autodesk event in SF where the guy behind it was controlling the lights from his laptop.

	▲	kukanani 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You’re probably thinking of the Bay Bridge Lights or Bay Lights. They first ran from 2013-2023. They were so popular, that starting this year, the lights are back on, every night. https://illuminate.org/projects/thebaylights/

▲ zahlman 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Stereoscope — Toronto 2008, City Hall: two towers, one matrix (96×32 pixels, 16 greyscales).

Oh man, I think I remember that.

▲ unprovable an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's been so long since I last saw this. Stalwart of the internet.

▲ karim79 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it got the HN kiss of death. We need a new page about how to avoid this. Basic scaling skills I tells ya.

	▲	esseph an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's a lot of the same people that refuse free CDNs.