so this could be the answer to our led display problems. it sells at sam's for about 150 bucks.

next, we've gotta figure out how to make it talk to a computer running a real operating system. the pinouts and shit cost money (at least right now they do). so that's another expense. but after that, it's just a programming project away from people being able to message us over the web.

i've found a couple of resources, but there's reading to be done yet.