Souvenirs des villes européennes

09 Nov 2024

Visiting European cities I always notice big, green cross-shaped pharmacy signs. They’ve kind of worked their way into my memory and I feel a little tingle of holiday excitement when I see them. Spending most of my working days staring at glowing rectangles made of pixels hasn’t stopped me from admiring the glowing notrectangles and their dancing LED patterns.

So it is with some nostalgia that I share my latest hobby project, pretentiously entitled “Souvenirs des villes européennes”.

It’s still a work in progress and hasn’t found a home yet (bathroom cabinet?). But it has a few different fancy modes and is fun to stare at, I think.

It is made of:

Watch to the end to see a personal message for a Morrison family member. For now it’s a single LED matrix, but I might expand to a grid of them. And it’s not internet connected, although that could be fun: I can imagine it showing the date and the temperature just like the real thing on the continent.

Tags: geeky, personal

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