A Marquee, News Feed Ticker, Twitter, WiFi Repeater Bridge, Thing.

This project started when I was going through the junk in my garage, stumbiling across this old LED sign and a spare wireless router. Now, it gives me all kinds of info from the local weather, date/time, various news feeds, interesting tweets, etc. Basically, any info available from the web. Also, I have modified the WiFi router to be a repeater bridge. So, in one way, I can consider this something interesting to do with a WiFi repeater.

I would not try making another one exactly like this because the parts are so unique. But, I will re-use some of these techiques to do similar things with (I actually already have).
 

Step 1 The Basic Construction

Components:
  - LED Display
  - An SBC (I used this because I had one)
  - A WiFi router (I used this from my garage)
  - A display case/shadow box (example)
  - A piece of two-way mirror (example)
  - Some black felt to hide everything

The first thing I did was to get the SBC working with the LED display. You're basically on your own here. Of course, you could use any type of SBC/Display combo here. It just needs to emit light and connect to the web.

After all the basic components were working, I cut a piece of the two-way mirror to fit the display case and replaced its original glass with it. With the display off, the mirror gives it a nice effect.