The schematics describe a system that makes horizontal and vertical line segments coast from left to right, wrapping around a 16-character display. The data come from three components called "shift registers," which control individual lights (LEDs) within each character. A description is included as an imaginary data sheet.
The visual flow for each "pixel" in time:
U1 controls the top 3 LEDs for each character; U2 does LEDs 10 and 4 for each character, and U3 handles LEDs 1 and 2. This will be obvious to an electrical engineer.
It is assumed the solver will make a simulation in C and watch the output in a monospace XTerm window. If patient, the answer will appear at the 96th time step for R1=1k and R2, R3=2k. (To prevent the answer from being obvious, I shifted the final state data for Shift reg2 and Shift reg3 by 16 bits.)
|FINAL STATE (Timestep 96 for R1=1k, R2=2k, R3=2k)|
In the final state, the following appears:
In other words--in Harvey Twyman's LCD font--"Physicist Werner." The answer is HEISENBERG.
The clear reference to "knitting" in the last line of the flavortext gives the training puzzle, Knitting. In spite of the suggestions that the untrained/trained answer is AUTHORITARIANISM/"Fearful Symmetry" (or LIBRARIAN/Travelers, say), the trained answer is actually MIND'S EYE.