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| griffindodd:
Do you know of any larger displays similar to this that are as economical, maybe up to 12" wide? |
| Trip:
--- Quote from: RamjetR on September 10, 2012, 07:08:16 pm ---Oh WOW! I didn't know about LEDTriks... and my girlfriend is xmas MAD! so she'll love that. Hours of fun! --- End quote --- Yeah doityourselfchristmas.com is a good site to check out a lot more stuff for computerized christmas lights. Since the move I have gotten out of it a bit, but I use to have 2 Renard 64s and 3 Renard 24s going for 200 channels of blinkey flashy christmas light goodness. Just got too expensive with power and not being able to get as good of deals after christmas on bulk lights cause of the economic crash and walmart not ordering as much around me. Plus, I was never that good at synching my lights with music because I am not artistic in the slightest and my wife had no interest in learning to synch. |
| Acids:
--- Quote from: RamjetR on September 10, 2012, 12:31:33 am ---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 --- End quote --- This looks interesting indeed. where did you get these from?? $5 AUD Australian Dollar? |
| RamjetR:
Hey, I got mine from www.prime-electronics.com.au and yeah, $5 australian They are more of a electronic component wholesaler than a store really... mainly servicing industry repair centres, but they just happened to have a bargain bin full of these things. I'm pretty sure most of them out there are RS232 serial driven, although there may be some USB versions which will need their own reverse engineering. But a quick google will show other hacks for different types of them. But for an afternoon of buggering around at work, I had fun turning something gimmick'y into something useful. :) Ramjet |
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