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Dave setting up before turning on the sculpture.

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The EL sculpture before powering up.

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A bank of microcontrollers.

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Ready to roll.

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"I have a dream..."

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In between frames.

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An angle shot showing both the lit and unlit wires.

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Interconnects to the microcontrollers.

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Speakers connected to the playback board.

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Dave describing how he broke the speech down into discrete phoenemes to organize the frames.

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Showing off a playback board.

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Closeup of the different layers of EL wire that make up the different eye positions.

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The wires that make up the positions of the mouth.

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Closeup of the playback microcontroller and connections to the electroluminescent wires.