Reverse-engineering Moscow's gimmicky LED volume display thing
Channel: Danya G.
Date: 19/01/2020

I honestly didn't expect this to work as well as it did, because my experience with public Internet-enabled Russian things is not particularly impressive. This is one of several LED cylinder things installed around Moscow that allow users to order a specific animation to be displayed on them.


My original idea was to make it display arbitrary content, but I couldn't figure out how to do that. At least I now have some proof-of-concept code to order animations through code rather than using their website.


News article at the beginning: https://www.m24.ru/videos/gorod/21122019/224146

Their website: http://magictime.moscow/?controller=stel&stel_key=eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3
My code: https://gist.github.com/danya02/b94f85b0a095da71cf1ef287d9c8e092