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title: 'Messages at the Systema Solar Concert'
url: 'https://hiperterminal.com/david/personal/en/blog/2025-07-05-mensajes-en-el-concierto-del-systema-solar'
markdown: 'https://hiperterminal.com/david/personal/en/blog/2025-07-05-mensajes-en-el-concierto-del-systema-solar.md'
lang: en
date: '2025-07-05'
description: 'During the presentation in Barcelona of the Futurx Primitivx 2025 album by Systema Solar, I configured a LED tag name to share some messages. Here I present the messages and how I configured this little device. The Systema Solar Concert The Colombian group Systema Solar in concert in Barcelona, …'
taxonomy:
  category:
    - blog
  tag:
    - 'Systema Solar'
    - Colombia
    - Barcelona
    - 'Primitive Future'
    - '2025'
    - 'Led tag name'
    - 'Quimbaya Treasure'
    - Colombofuturisms
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# Messages at the Systema Solar Concert

## July 05, 2025

During the presentation in Barcelona of the Futurx Primitivx 2025 album by Systema Solar, I configured a *LED tag name* to share some messages. Here I present the messages and how I configured this little device.

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## The Systema Solar Concert 

![The Colombian group Systema Solar in concert in Barcelona in 2025, presenting their Primitive Future album.](https://hiperterminal.com/david/personal/user/pages/img/2025-06-28-22-34-13-Systema-Solar-Barcelona.jpeg)The Colombian group [Systema Solar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systema_Solar) in concert in Barcelona, in 2025, presenting their Primitive Future album. This image [is also available on Wikimedia Commons as Systema Solar in Barcelona, 2025](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025-06-28-22-34-13-Systema-Solar-Barcelona.jpg).

## The Messages 

### First the Video 

Here's a video with the *LED tag name* and the list of messages.

This video is also [available on Wikimedia Commons as Systema Solar LED tag name](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025-07-01_19-07-52-Led-tag-name-Systema-Solar.webm).

### Now the Messages 

The messages are in Spanish, more or less says:

- Berbenautical Colombofuturisms
- Gatherings with affection  (Here I am using slang)
- Ecofeminisms `#DaleLaVueltaMama`
- Return the Quimbaya Treasure
- Well, so what? What's the issue?
- Taganga power
- Return to the jungle
- Systema Soooolarrrr! Fine champeta
- Teusaquillo power Bogotá affection (Here I am using slang)
- I brought nothing, I take nothing (-\_-)
- I cannot forget

## How Did I Do It? 

I got the little device [at Wikimania](https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Wikimania). I didn't know what it was called, but over time I found out its name is LED tag name and [there are people who sell it](https://www.lesun-led.com/products/led-name-badges).

Then, the problem is that they came with Windows software, but I use Ubuntu. I found [this GitHub repo that synchronizes LED tags with messages](https://github.com/Scooterkip/Badgel?tab=readme-ov-file). You have to install some software packages but in the end the synchronization is done with Python. I don't know why, but the device never worked via Bluetooth, only by cable.

The code I used was this, being in the Badgel software folder that I downloaded:

`sudo python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py -m 0,0 -s 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6 "Berbenautical Colombofuturisms" ":heart2: Gatherings with affection :HEART2:" "Ecofeminisms #DaleLaVueltaMama" ":bicycle: Return the Quimbaya Treasure :bicycle:" "Well, so what? What's the issue? :happy2: :happy: :happy2:" "Taganga power   Return to the jungle" "Systema Soooolarrrr! Fine champeta" "Teusaquillo power Bogotá affection     I brought nothing, I take nothing (-_-)  I cannot forget"`

The message limit is 8, but to include more, I simply put some spaces between message and message. Let me explain the code a bit, but [the full documentation is here](https://github.com/jnweiger/led-name-badge-ls32):

- `sudo python3 ./led-badge-11x44.py`: as super administrator you run the Python software that includes the messages.
- `-m 0,0 -s`: the message goes from right to left. `m` is for mode and `s` is for speed.
- `6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6`: is the speed, from 1 to 9, of the messages. Speed 6 is like medium-fast, because I wrote extensive things.
- `"Berbenautical Colombofuturisms"`: Then come the messages in quotes separated by spaces. I used `:bicycle:` to get the bicycle, `:heart2:` and `:HEART2:` for hearts with and without fill and `:happy2:` and `:happy:` for happy faces. To one of the messages I made an emoji with parentheses and dashes: `(-_-)`.

One of the problems I encountered is that it's developed for French characters. Therefore, some accents and openings of certain signs don't appear or generate errors. That's why I wrote `Bueno y que?` (the message meaning`Well, so what?`) and I couldn't do it with signs and accents as it should be with a proper: `¿Bueno y qué?` using `¿` and `é`.

If you want to replicate it, share it, so we can see what other tricks we learn.

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