LED Sign stuff

One of the goofier projects I’ve started recently has been toying with an Adaptive Micro Systems LED sign, specifically the PPD220RED (for “personal proximity display”, and its color). I’ve wanted to own a goofy LED marquee sign for years, and after some searching I managed to snag one on eBay.

Among other things, I’ve hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi and have it showing simple weather information, sourced from OpenWeatherMap.

The sign displaying the current weather conditions and a brief forecast.

The protocol for the sign is available online, and I’ve been working on an implementation of it so I can let the internet display messages on it as well. But for now it’s mostly just a silly little toy.

First post

New year, new… thing? I’ve talked way too much about how social media sucks and yet it’s where I put way too much of my thoughts… and my journal isn’t really a good place for that, either, being that it’s more personal.

I’ve tried various blogs before — too many times, arguably — but this time hopefully I can keep things going by focusing mostly on what I’m doing, and have something to show for it beyond a link to a tweet or two.

Here’s to 2019.