Just uploading some photos of @ian’s work from Tuesday night 
IIRC, this will be 5 characters of LED matrix awesomeness and is built from ~125 recycled 3.5" floppy disk LTO backup tape containers!
LED driver board started - built around 74-series shift registers:
TODO: wiring!
This project is great, I can’t wait to see it running 
Is going to be a very good use of that LED strip I had laying around 
for the record though, those are LTO (backup tape cartridge) boxes, not floppy disk boxes.
D’oh! Edited for factual errors
This is great. I’m so happy to see it up and running!
It doesn’t say anything just yet, but if anyone wants to turn it on tonight and see the test pattern - the power plug is hanging to the right of the matrix.
My mum sent me an SMS last night saying she saw the sign on her way home from work and it was really eye catching
Is that kind of like the time on the Simpsons when Milhouse says “My Mom thinks I’m cool”?
That’s still an achievement unlocked!
Hi. Saw this while having dinner at the noodle house across the road a few weeks ago. I didn’t know of this group, so congrats on both the build and ninja advertising.
This and @jambulance’s happy face the night he first saw it makes it all worth while. I’m glad it motivate you to find out more.
