tangent4ronpaul
05-19-2007, 02:22 AM
Have we got any EE's or EE students here?
Looking for someone to find a schematic or design a circuit for scrolling LCD screens, adaptable to multiple sizes – armband, small banners, etc. up to 4'x8' plywood boards, as well as develop instructions on how to build and program or interface it to a computer. Basing it on a PIC micro-controller would be ideal.
After that, if someone or a group is willing to buy LED's and electronic components in bulk (like fliers, they are a LOT cheaper in quantity) and put together kits that supporters can assemble.
He's something I wrote back at the beginning of February on the topic:
It is possible to convert a van or truck into a huge big screen TV on wheels, with the display visible to those outside. This is essentially a video billboard on wheels. See Make magazine, vol 8, p151-153. Convert as many as possible.
81 beltways
0.5M ppl per day each
40.5M ppl total
13.5 % of population
I have a feeling the video vans on overpasses or off on ramps and projectors would cause objection from the cops, claiming we were disrupting traffic. Consider if we made limited use of then and then on the eve of the IA or NH primary pull out 324 of them (8 per beltway) especially if we jammed/slowed traffic. Could probably get away with half that many. I'm betting something like that would make national news. (it would be hard to keep it a secret, unless a small group made them and the campaign as a whole was kept in the dark until the last minute).
Was also thinking how to do something almost as good but for a lot less money. I think a grid of LED's could be attached to some base - maybe even canvas, and used to stream messages and maybe very crude images depending on the density. That would be a lot less invasive to the vehicle used and could be shipped from state to state, as opposed to permanently modifying a van and transporting it. If it worked, it would be possible to FLOOD a city and less so a state with them in the days preceding an election.
I had more written up, but I'm not finding those files right now...
Some resources:
Van TV
http://www.make-digital.com/make-look-inside/vol08/?pg=159&liid=af262d8ec8&b=0&search=van+tv
LED
http://www.feeds4all.com/Item.aspx?ItemID=12596713
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/02/how_to_make_a_l_7.html
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/how_to_led_matr.html
http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/
http://www.gizmology.net/LEDs.htm
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=19#video (overpasses?)
Projecton tagging:
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video
http://muonics.net/blog/index.php?postid=15
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=90#video
http://www.make-digital.com/make-look-inside/vol07/?pg=28&liid=ba166ef216&b=0&search=bruce+stirling+the+interventionists+make
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/1313232
https://secure.lumenlab.com/shop/product.php?id=38
http://www.lumenlab.com/diy/
Traffic patterns:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/traffic05.htm
Other political tech projects:
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/projects.html
http://research.eyebeam.org/projects
Nathan
tangent4ronpaul AT yahoo DOT com
Looking for someone to find a schematic or design a circuit for scrolling LCD screens, adaptable to multiple sizes – armband, small banners, etc. up to 4'x8' plywood boards, as well as develop instructions on how to build and program or interface it to a computer. Basing it on a PIC micro-controller would be ideal.
After that, if someone or a group is willing to buy LED's and electronic components in bulk (like fliers, they are a LOT cheaper in quantity) and put together kits that supporters can assemble.
He's something I wrote back at the beginning of February on the topic:
It is possible to convert a van or truck into a huge big screen TV on wheels, with the display visible to those outside. This is essentially a video billboard on wheels. See Make magazine, vol 8, p151-153. Convert as many as possible.
81 beltways
0.5M ppl per day each
40.5M ppl total
13.5 % of population
I have a feeling the video vans on overpasses or off on ramps and projectors would cause objection from the cops, claiming we were disrupting traffic. Consider if we made limited use of then and then on the eve of the IA or NH primary pull out 324 of them (8 per beltway) especially if we jammed/slowed traffic. Could probably get away with half that many. I'm betting something like that would make national news. (it would be hard to keep it a secret, unless a small group made them and the campaign as a whole was kept in the dark until the last minute).
Was also thinking how to do something almost as good but for a lot less money. I think a grid of LED's could be attached to some base - maybe even canvas, and used to stream messages and maybe very crude images depending on the density. That would be a lot less invasive to the vehicle used and could be shipped from state to state, as opposed to permanently modifying a van and transporting it. If it worked, it would be possible to FLOOD a city and less so a state with them in the days preceding an election.
I had more written up, but I'm not finding those files right now...
Some resources:
Van TV
http://www.make-digital.com/make-look-inside/vol08/?pg=159&liid=af262d8ec8&b=0&search=van+tv
LED
http://www.feeds4all.com/Item.aspx?ItemID=12596713
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/02/how_to_make_a_l_7.html
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/how_to_led_matr.html
http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/
http://www.gizmology.net/LEDs.htm
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=19#video (overpasses?)
Projecton tagging:
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video
http://muonics.net/blog/index.php?postid=15
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=90#video
http://www.make-digital.com/make-look-inside/vol07/?pg=28&liid=ba166ef216&b=0&search=bruce+stirling+the+interventionists+make
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/1313232
https://secure.lumenlab.com/shop/product.php?id=38
http://www.lumenlab.com/diy/
Traffic patterns:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/traffic05.htm
Other political tech projects:
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/projects.html
http://research.eyebeam.org/projects
Nathan
tangent4ronpaul AT yahoo DOT com