Re: led test

[Emmanuel Charpentier <emmanuel.charpentier@free.fr>]

  Like in David Brin's «postman», in a laboratory from before the war,
  there was an AI which lighted leds in a truely random way. The hero
  (kevin kostner in the crappy movie) actually discovers that it's been
  dead for a while, because the led blink in a non random fashion.

  Or, what about a game of life? Three states, 24 cells, plenty to start
  with! Maybe you can play with some variables to show the advancement
  of the machine's startup. Like, when the machine is ready all the
  cells have turned in green, and then die and turn black.

  Manu
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:21:07PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> Vince Mulhollon wrote:
> > 
> 
> > Uh, no.  If you blink SOS, you'll have everyone who knows morse code
> > repeatedly rebooting the thing, or disassembling it because there is a
> > small person trapped inside trying to send a help message.
> 
> Right.  I should have mentioned that I was only going to do this for the
> first power on test and not at any shows or anything like that.  It
> should be a fun gag though.  One of the guys in hardware is going to
> wire a smoke bomb inside.
> 
> I should also mention that I have two rows of twelve leds to work with
> and they can all be red, green, or amber.  
> 
> Maybe I'll do something like pong.  It'll be stupid with only two rows
> but I am trying to impress marketing type people;)
> 
> later,
> Andy