[voltagex_]

Great video - hope to see a longer one / blog post if F21 lets you publish details.

Is there a story behind the PCB that's shown on fire, or was that just for show? ;)

[mattiasgunneras]

We anticipated some static from all the ribbons, so the superstructure is heavily grounded and made of aluminum, we also have aluminum plates inside each pixel module. But when our step-drivers started catching fire we bought a 3M 718 static sensor, it maxed out at 20kV so I actually don't know how much static we had on the ribbons. We ran tonnes of more grounding wires through the modules and that took care of the problem. But yeah, static caused a few fires here before we figured it out.

[Serow225]

Take a look at anti-static tinsel, it's perfect for this type of issue: http://www.statictinsel.com/how-to-use-tinsel.html

[peterfirefly]

Static electricity was a big problem on early drum computers.