Han in Carbonite hero panel displays

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So I'm still waiting on having the box pieces CNC cut for the han in carbonite, but in the meantime I've been working on the electronics for the hero panel. I wanted to have an identical match to the on screen pattern from return of the jedi, so I grabbed 90 consecutive frames from a very brief part of the movie where you can clearly see the lighting and recreated the pattern using an arduino, some shift registers, and some 7-segment LED displays. The larger green screen is currently being represented by the green led. Looks like a near perfect match when I watch the original video compared to my setup so I'm happy! I'm probably going to add another fast sequence for when he is unfrozen.

Still awaiting my overload displays so the two vertical lines on the far right represent the + and -

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