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The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks


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This also means looping can be a very slightly jittery process (with each screen receiving 10 ‘start’ events), but as long as the first couple frames of the video are identical, nobody would even notice. All we needed to do was pick up some stable Linux distro, write a hacky startup script that loads up Chromium and simulates the keystrokes to fullscreen the video and we’re done! By some miracle, this version of the tool actually works perfectly fine at setting fan speeds, and after some testing, I found some goldilocks values that balance noise and temperature.

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