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[[Michael chislett]] somehow ended up with the project, and couldn't resist adding some awesome features to the list: not only would the matrixes be 8x8, but they could now team up to be 16x8 machines, by linking two units together to create a bussed output, using clever disabling of different chips output lines. They'd also sport shiny blue LCD's, because they make them usable, and were conveniently cheap via a supplier who had no idea of their value! (Mike acquired them for around a fifth of their wholesale value). They would also use Mike's pipe-dream protocol called yvp, (YstvVisionPath) so that they could in future communicate via butchered xml over serial ports to the rest of the vision path, to route things like tally lights... It still remains to be seen whether yvp will catch on.