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rotating monitor methods
freckleface:
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You could put 1 hand on one side of the monitor, another hand on the other and pick it up and turn it.
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not such a silly idea. ive seen at least one upright with an lcd that does this. it doesnt even have to rotate on a swivel. he just made it so that you pull it out of its bracket and then you just turn it 90 degrees...
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Going that way, you could buy a rotating stand. I like the powered version.
bfauska:
<Thinking outloud>
Could you use some of the outputs from an LedWiz to fire a relay that rotated your monitor until it hit some limit switches.
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I don't know much about the LedWiz or the software available for it, but I had gotten the impression that people were having it do game-specific things when they launch a game from their frontend (illuminate the buttons used by a game for instance.) If the LedWiz can do that, then there should be a way to use the orentation tag (or whatever it is) to send power out of some pins on the LedWiz that are then conected to some relays that control the monitor.
If somebody already has an LedWiz then this seems like a simple(ish) solution with out much cost for the interface.
Sounds promising to me, but what do I know?
Later,
Brian
Cornchip:
It might be a question to ask Randy. The LedWiz can put out up to 500ma/output. A 5VDC relay typically might only need 60ma. Match that with a decent rating of 10amps (plenty) and you'd have something workable.
http://oeiwcsnts1.omron.com/marcom/pdfcatal.nsf/0/391BE930848E283386256FC700609BA6/$file/MJN+0906.pdf
Cornchip
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Cornchip on February 19, 2007, 08:17:03 pm --- It might be a question to ask Randy. The LedWiz can put out up to 500ma/output. A 5VDC relay typically might only need 60ma. Match that with a decent rating of 10amps (plenty) and you'd have something workable.
http://oeiwcsnts1.omron.com/marcom/pdfcatal.nsf/0/391BE930848E283386256FC700609BA6/$file/MJN+0906.pdf
Cornchip
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the output is certainly no prob, besides you could use power transistors. but can you program the ledwiz to recognise horizontal/vertical games? thats the key...
csa3d:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on February 20, 2007, 06:58:55 am ---the output is certainly no prob, besides you could use power transistors. but can you program the ledwiz to recognise horizontal/vertical games? thats the key...
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I've been pondering this too. The ledwiz as I understand, is set up to turn on lights, mainly to identify button usage. I've never seen a button on an arcade light up telling the user they are playing a vertical game, so I'm too confused on how this would work. Anyone with insight, do tell. I always assumed I would need to beg someone from Mala Land to code me a plugin to fire off a signal.
-csa