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gstellenberg:
Regardless of which direction designers choose to go with their homebrew machines, there are a lot of people simply wanting to re-theme their existing machines. For those projects, the DMD is likely going to stay. To make their lives easier, the pyprocgame framework has a lot of DMD support functionality to make it easy to render text and graphics.
Interestingly, there are two P-ROC based projects I know about where the designers are actually installing DMD's into older, alphanumeric display machines:
Bride of Pinbot
Road Kings
Since a P-ROC based machine will include a computing element, the designer can choose between a monitor or a DMD (or even both). Incidentally, the P-ROC can drive alphanumeric displays too.
- Gerry
Q*Bert_OP:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on October 06, 2010, 09:12:38 pm ---P.P.S. TRADEMARK DIBS ON THE BLUE DMD!!! FIRST FIRST!!!!
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Already exists... :cheers: not ready for sale yet, but its already been done...
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I should mention its LED, not gas-filled glass
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: Q*Bert_24/7 on October 07, 2010, 08:54:53 am ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on October 06, 2010, 09:12:38 pm ---P.P.S. TRADEMARK DIBS ON THE BLUE DMD!!! FIRST FIRST!!!!
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Already exists... :cheers: not ready for sale yet, but its already been done...
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I should mention its LED, not gas-filled glass
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i'd be interested in the plasma display... it would only be a matter of a different gas (maybe xenon) and maybe a slightly different composition of the anodes/cathodes. i don't think you would need to modify the power supply any for it to work.
i guess overseas from north america, they cant use the plasma DMD's due to the laws regarding hazardous materials or something of the like, therefore use LED displays that are RoHS compliant.
if you have a link to the LED blue DMD distributor i'd take a look for sure.
mark shaker:
--- Quote from: Q*Bert_24/7 on October 07, 2010, 08:54:53 am ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on October 06, 2010, 09:12:38 pm ---P.P.S. TRADEMARK DIBS ON THE BLUE DMD!!! FIRST FIRST!!!!
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Already exists... :cheers: not ready for sale yet, but its already been done...
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I should mention its LED, not gas-filled glass
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Now, multi-color with nice big 8-bit style pixles. Now that would rock!
- Mark
gstellenberg:
Expo was a lot of fun. The seminar went well, and the response we got to the P-ROC was excellent. We should have the video edited in a week or two, and I'll post a link to it as soon as possible.
In the meantime, check out this video. We've been helping the guys at Dutch Pinball for a while now with their P-ROC project, and they were kind enough to put the video together for our P-ROC seminar at Expo. What they've been able to create is incredibly impressive!
- Gerry