So a while back I've started helping my friend Doug with some of his projects, and sort of took over one that was above of his current capabilities (I'm more of a C/C++ guy, he's more into Python, so it worked out). Doug wanted to make his journalist friend a news ticker - something that will read RSS feeds from across the great plains of the internet and scroll them on an LED matrix - like the Times Square, or the 80s. So We dived in. First the LED strips. We used had 3 matr