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It would be even cooler to have a lot of drones with red, green and blue LEDs. You could have them fly in a grid and coordinate the brightness of the RGB lights to play a video.


That isn't a Rick Roll, though, it's just mass deployment of the Ludovico Technique at that point.


With one wire for power going through them vertically you could go really high and stay there “forever”.

Could also connect them just at the top, so you can have a wire that is not isolated and higher voltage (less loss)


> Could also connect them just at the top, so you can have a wire that is not isolated and higher voltage

You could also just hang up an electric wire with light bulbs at this point.


Yes, like this art installation by Jim Campbell back in 2006: https://bampfa.org/program/jim-campbell-home-movies

Only power and ground were supplied through the two wires connecting to each pixel. The pixels were PIC micro-controllers which contained the brightness levels for that pixel, which would play on loop independently. As I remember, the whole array would loose power intermittently to deal with clock drift.


Not 1024 of them in parallel really high in the sky to show a movie to all of the city


in 32p resolution?




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