Simmons Hall is a dormitory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which is home to 300 undergraduate students. It is notable for its unique architecture, which features 5,538 small, outward facing windows. The goal of this project was to turn a 6-by-6 set of those windows into an approximately 20-by-20 foot LED-based display which could scroll messages and display patterns. The visibility of the display is optimal because Simmons sits alone across from Dorm Row, where almost all of the other undergraduate dorms are located. The display is thus visible to well over a thousand undergraduates who live across from Simmons. The windows LED project had been executed before in 2006, but most of the hardware was missing and the display had been used relatively sparsely due to the lack of accessibility through a web or voice interface.

This repository contains the Python which runs on Google App Engine and interacts with the lower levels of the system, which are located in Simmons.

• Isaac Evans

Connections to the Arduino from the driver board are as follows: Light red - GND Black - TX Darker red - 5V