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Video Wall

(1/4) We're well behind schedule...

Yes, we were meant to have this packed up in the van by now.

Looks cool, though!

So what's the hold-up?

e can produce animated output on each screens individually, but synchronising them so that we get one video image across all of them is proving trickier than I thought.

Sorry, I really can't help!

Video Wall

(2/4) Strewth! It's a big as they told m! It looks great!

Hello. It's not working properly yet.

Hi.. Sorry not to be more sociable... We're working against the clock. This is a coding emergency!

Well that's why I'm here. I heard about your video wall project at the local Linux User Group. Can I help?

Do you have any knowhow with C-programming? We're struggling to send and receive network packets.

I handed in my PhD thesis about programming yesterday.

Fantastic! Have you got any spare time over next 48 hours?

Certainly have, now I've completed my thesis. When I heard about your project it sounded so cool! I'd have come here before... but I was way too busy.

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(3/4) Right then... Let's see if I can knock this software into better shape...

Thanks, Matt! Meanwhile the rest of us will sort out the hardware.

And the video content.

And the network.

And the OS config.

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(4/4) Several pizzas and many coffes later..

Guys! I think I've cracked it!

Is it working?

Yeeehah! Realtime Streaming ASCIIart!

Thanks a lot for helping out.

No worries, mate! It's fun to get to use my skills for something cool. I've never helped to make art before. If you'd have been working on something sensible and boring, maybe I wouldn't have bothered.

Someone could have made a video wall like this in '95, when  this technology was new. They didn't bother, because they couldn't see the point!

But the point is, it's a lot of fun!

And we learned loads os new skills!

And it shows that trash can be a resource when we get creative with it.

Nice exhibition, Jim. It looks great!

I couldn't have done it without Matt, Tony, Ian, the other Matt and a whole bunch of others!