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echo: rberrypi
to: DOC O`LEARY
from: GARETH`S DOWNSTAIRS COMPU
date: 2018-04-17 09:53:00
subject: Re: Blinkenlights?

On 16/04/2018 21:24, Doc O'Leary wrote:
> For your reference, records indicate that
> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
 wrote:
>
>> I wonder if anyone has implemented a blinkenlights
>> interface for the RPi, so that one is not reliant on the
>> complexity and reliability of VDU monitors, mice and
>> keyboards?
>
> Well, the Sense HAT has a well-supported set of switches and lights.
> There’s probably no general “interface” you can build for it to access
> the entire complexity of the underlying Linux OS, but you could
> certainly use it as a base for some kinds of high level blinkenlights
> projects.
>

I would not have an "underlying Linux OS", for I'm very much
a Not Invented Here kind of softy  :-)

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