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by cookiengineer 1532 days ago
> 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.

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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?