Project Blinkenlights

[1] Some novel uses of the screen are for people to call a number and play Pong via mobile phone or display animations sent in by the public.

Similar monochrome and color displays have been done on MIT's Green Building since at least 1993, when the building's 9x17 array of windows displayed a monochrome VU meter for the traditional Fourth of July concert of the Boston Pops orchestra.

[4] The electrical engineering and computer science students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics turn their Schönherz Dormitory into a giant display ("the Matrix") at their annual Schönherz Cup competition, where amongst others, teams compete to create the most interesting and funny animations.

[6] Independently, an installation displaying the message "FERTiG" (German for "FINISHED") was shown at the completion of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in 2016.

It was called Polychrome and used RGBw LED which have been calibrated as Tim Pritlove shown in a Talk about the Project on Aug. 16.