How Students Pulled Off A 110ft Light Show
06/13/09 - Pretty Cool
“A group of Polish students have created a YouTube hit by putting up a stunning light show on an 11-storey university building. The electronics scholars from Wroklaw Polytechnic hooked up thousands of coloured bulbs to a computer and giant circuit boards to generate the display. The group, who call themselves Projekt P.I.W.O (‘piwo’ is Polish for ‘beer’), then started flashing the lights to the beat of music in a ten-minute exhibition. The tunes they used included those from computer games Pong, Tetris and Mario Brothers – as well as Michael Jackson hits. The dot matrix technology employed on the hall of residence is the same used on scroll signs in railway stations, buses, trains, shops and airports.” w/ photos + video
