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| RamjetR:
Hi all, I've been playing with a couple of cheap Scrolling LED Name Tag displays that I got from a local electronics store for $5AUD each. Cool little afternoon project I thought would be to reverse engineer the software that it came with, write a new version in AHK and interface it to my arcade cabinet to display information such as the ROM/Game running, Insert Coins, Credits etc etc Now that it's running with my AHK code... What I can display on it is almost limitless... although the onboard firmware will only accept text (no graphic EQ stuff) but a fun little project non the less. Mine is a Serial RS232 connection and has storable message banks to allow updating and stand alone display without needing to be connected to a PC. The button battery that comes with it should be able to be removed and ran from PC power with 5V or 3.3V from the PSU. Anyhow... thought I'd share this with everyone and see if people use scrolling displays like this and have ever thought of using a cheap name tag for their project. Sorry for the video lack of narration... but it's the visual effect your interested in I'm sure. Ramjet. |
| griffindodd:
This is great! So can you send game information text to the display in real time? |
| Trip:
We have a lot of fun with this type stuff in christmas light displays. Look up LED Triks. |
| RamjetR:
Yeah I can send anything I want to it at any time. Since I have some code monitoring the Model 2 emulator, I can get alot more information out of that than I really need. But for the visual effect on a cabinet, I thought it would be cool to play with. My cabinet isn't a faithful restore rather more of a wrecked cabinet turned into a racing cab which also plays Model 2 games. So I don't have any issues strapping something like this to it for fun and practical racing information. :) looking up LED Triks now :) |
| RamjetR:
--- Quote from: Trip on September 10, 2012, 01:24:26 pm ---We have a lot of fun with this type stuff in christmas light displays. Look up LED Triks. --- End quote --- Oh WOW! I didn't know about LEDTriks... and my girlfriend is xmas MAD! so she'll love that. Hours of fun! |
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