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Space Base - A homebrew ICB/ZP
orangewhip:
I didn't even know we had a comedy club here, and probably don't any more. I bet you it was a scummy night club and not a comedy club.
But yeah, Surrey get s huge bad rap....it was pretty bad in the 1970s but is a completely different place these days. Sure, every major city has its sketchy areas, including Surrey, but those areas are changing the most...new city hall built there, new library, tons of new high rises. Its because Surrey is quickly taking over the population of Vancouver and within a half dozen years they suspect it will be larger than Vancouver.
That being said, I also read somewhere that Patton LOVES Vancouver, and his shows in Vancouver are amongst his favorite...well, I hate to tell him but I bet you 40-50% of the people who go to the Vancouver shows are from Surrey, because we take up a huge chunk of the population, and Vancouverites are a bunch of hippy, tree-hugging, prius drivers, who probably don't even know who Patton is (no offence to Vancouverites).
Plus Vancouver being the 2nd most expensive city in the world to live, even an empty lot in Vancouver is around $1.2 million these days, most Vancouverites couldn't afford to go to a show! hahahaha
Now, let's get back to the original thread content...enough hijacking the thread about Patton and Surrey. LOL
SavannahLion:
What is the estimated enclosing "box" dimension of the scoreboard?
ids:
I don't have the dimensions you are looking for, but iirc the individual components are: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9932 packed as tightly as can be on perfboard. I've yet to solder them all up so I can't provide any more detail. The pins on these don't perfectly line up with standard perfboard holes but it seems you could pack them in nicely. I should be soldering soon at which point could provide more precise details.
SavannahLion:
Holy crap, an inch high?
Are you using a decoder IC for the 16 segment or are you leaving it up to whatever controller you have under the hood? I was just looking for 14 and 16 segment decoders the other day to see what their tables look like but only found MAXIM's chip. Can't recall the part number off the top of my head but I believe it was a BCD to 16 segment programmable decoder.
ids:
iirc I'm using a set of four TLC5916 constant current shift registers to reduce pin count on the controller. Two drive a single display, the four are so I drive one on each row (a column) then quickly cycle through them all.