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Re: Transparent OLED's
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2007, 06:09:52 pm »
Personally i think you should make the display show the radio stuff when the juke isn't running and then the song information when the juke is running. What jukebox software are you running? I mean not have it transparent but make it display an image of the numbers, using a scan or something. Using a transparent display would make the numbers show trough the song information.

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Re: Transparent OLED's
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2007, 01:47:58 pm »
You dial indicator will have to be at the front as you need to see that. Like i said with your method you will still see the dial when the text is displayed and it will probably be unreadable.

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Re: Transparent OLED's
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2007, 05:10:09 pm »
I think you completely misread the first idea from barcrest.

As you won't be able to purchase a transparent oled for this application for 5 or so more years, his idea is the only one that will work.

Just completely remove the dial stuff you want show.  Probably take a high quality picture of it.

Then put an lcd in there.  Make the picture your background for a jukebox frontend and also the screensaver.  I believe this is what barcrest was talking about.
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Re: Transparent OLED's
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2007, 07:06:11 pm »
Dude i was trying to say what green giant said. That is the only way to do it. Doing it with a transparent oled will not look good because you will see the dial info coming through the text would most likely be unreadable. As you can't get transparent oleds anyway it is all pretty much pointless.

You could do it using mirrors like the backdrop on the old arcade games... But i'll let you figue that out.

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Re: Transparent OLED's
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2007, 05:05:48 pm »
Some Japanese Pachislo machines use a transparent LCD not OLED. They are out now, but it could be very cost prohibitive and they may not be available to the general public.