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FAQ: These are all questions I have been asked before so I thought I might throw them up here. Q: Why are some of the lights always off? A: The lights are rather bright, and that can be hard to live with while going to sleep, we are trying to mitigate this with thicker tape but when someone turns them off they just forget to turn them back on, also we have had several hardware failures due to not having the proper hardware to pull off a display this big in the first place.

Q: Why Multi threaded? A: Why not? Also since letters are not all run off the same system they can get off of alignment with each other (system clock things) so their color change timing is randomized, but this leads to inevitably too letters wanting to change at the same time, which with two letters running off the same system only with a single thread this can cause issues

Q: Who funded this? A: I did, personally.