Project Blinkenlights
Project Blinkenlights Some things just have to be done. Project Blinkenlights turns buildings into giant interactive displays. What started in 2001 as the Chaos Computer Club's birthday present to itself became a series of light installations on three continents — the whole story is told in the project overview.
- ▪Project Blinkenlights Some things just have to be done.
- ▪Project Blinkenlights turns buildings into giant interactive displays.
- ▪What started in 2001 as the Chaos Computer Club's birthday present to itself became a series of light installations on three continents — the whole story is told in the project overview.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Front Page) |
| Canonical URL | https://blinkenlights.de/en/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:15:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-11T22:23:35.483Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-11T22:23:35.483Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Project Blinkenlights Some things just have to be done. Project Blinkenlights turns buildings into giant interactive displays. What started in 2001 as the Chaos Computer Club's birthday present to itself became a series of light installations on three continents — the whole story is told in the project overview. The Projects Blinkenlights — Berlin 2001, Haus des Lehrers: the installation that started it all (18×8 pixels, monochrome). With the reprise projects Reloaded (2004) and the Bauschild. Arcade — Paris 2002, Bibliothèque nationale de France: the world's biggest computer game display (26×20 pixels, 8 greyscales). Stereoscope — Toronto 2008, City Hall: two towers, one matrix (96×32 pixels, 16 greyscales).
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