What do you get if ...

An inflatable LED-lit artwork created for AfrikaBurn 2018, consisting of 4000+ LEDs and controlled with Python, ZeroMQ and almost all of the Raspberry Pi's PWM hardware.

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1. This slide intentionally left blank. (See what I did there?)
2. Dave, get up here!
3. What do you get if you combine ...
4. Python
5. ZeroMQ
6. a Raspberry Pi
7. Direct Memory Access
8. 90m of LEDs
9. 120m of nylon fabric & Inflatable tube
10. a bunch of old power supplies
11. a desert
12. … and a 6m aluminium ladder?
13. https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=bB9VamoJM1E
14. https://github.com/hodgestar/ earthstar-control-software