HeckleBot

If people help me build this, I will take it to conferences with me. -- JoiIto

I'm down with helping out any way I can -- GabeWachob

Count me in -- /me plugs in soldering iron... --mmdc

I'd be very disapointed if Wired Magazine didn't include Hecklebot in their next Wired / Tired, under Wired of course... -bluehaze

i've got piles of odd hardware within an hour of DC; let me know if parts are required -- RogerWood

A friend of mine Pythonized the C library of USB LCD displayers, but this LEDs are small. -- VictorRuiz

I've gotthe first pass at one instance of Hecklebot called UcHeckle working and ready for more testing (July 12, 2003). -- DavidBeckemeyer

Will this require some moderation? If people can send any comment from the anonymity of a PC screen half a world away, won't there be an awful lot of rubbish on it? If this becomes distracting enough the speaker might just ignore it? -- Martyn Williams

Technology

• Networked LED display

• http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/alpha/AlphaLinux.html

• http://www.grandwell.com/comm_type.htm

• LED Wand

• Top Group Chinese LED sign maker --StuartWoodward

• Skyliner This rocks! Too bad it doesn't have an interface

• http://www.tallydisplay.com/shock/ADBALL.pdf

• Hokey Spokes

• Bluetooth<-->RS-232 - Even works with cellphones! - adamhill

• WiFi<-->RS-232 - adamhill

• TateIshi Japanese sign maker --StuartWoodward

• Like MoPix Rear Window captioning?

The Cost

Display

• Neon das

• LED Signs

• Grandwell

Computer

• small embedded Linux box