OK...that is very cool and exactly what I want to do next year...but with RGB LEDs. What software did you use to animate that? Vixen or LSP?
LSP has a matrix animator which looks very promising.
That was done the hard way. Each stick is 8 lamps on about 6" centers connected to my 8 channel SSR and connected to a Freestyle for a total of 128 channels.
I am controlling it with Light-O-Rama so all of the letters are programmed by hand using a basic 5x7 matrix except for W and M.
It is working really good. I am still tweekin the speed. I have several different messages at different speeds!!
I am also using the display for "snow" on Let it Snow and others.
KEN