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Golden Tee Betabrite LED Ticker display. PC Connect Software......Help
MosenAround:
MonMother im the same as you in having the "backpack" style, where one board is the display and the other is the controll board.
It would be really cool if you made a tutorial on how to wire this up ect. I know you said you are very busy and have alot of other projects but maybe if I donated some $$
towards the cause.
Even if oter people donated also that were wanting the same thing to help motivate you.
But I dont expect people to do so.
Thanks again for this thread to be revived :)
DogP:
--- Quote from: MonMotha on February 13, 2013, 10:24:26 am ---Interesting...you have a different rev. than all of mine. Mine both have a "backpack" board separate from the display board itself.
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Yep... all the ones I had seen had the seperate board, so I figured it'd be really easy to interface. Oh well. :-P
--- Quote from: MonMotha on February 13, 2013, 10:24:26 am ---Like you, I figured an easier thing to do would be to just replace the controller entirely.
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Yeah, I'm not sure about "easier", but the results would be what I was actually trying to achieve. If I just left something sniffing the RS232 lines while the topper was connected to the cab, I could have probably figured out the basic commands pretty easily... but reprogramming the high score names and location name isn't particularly interesting. Actually, when I dumped the flash chip, I did see the text that it displayed, so if you wanted to change the text of the existing animation, it probably wouldn't have been too tough.
--- Quote from: MosenAround on February 14, 2013, 04:18:20 am ---It would be really cool if you made a tutorial on how to wire this up ect. I know you said you are very busy and have alot of other projects but maybe if I donated some $$ towards the cause.
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No need to donate anything... I plan to post the microcontroller code once I get around to making it do something useful, in case anyone would like to build their own. Of course I don't have any of the other versions, so I can't say that it'll work without modification, or exactly how to hook it up.
I doubt anyone else would be too interested in exactly how to hook it up on this version, but I could look back at my notes if anyone's really wondering. If someone figured out the pinout of the piggyback version and posted it, I could probably tell you how to hook the microcontroller to it though.
DogP
galaga.nz:
I have the pinout
Just the display pcb
1 led drive + 2 row
2 led drive + 1 top row
3 led drive + 3 row
4 led drive + 6 row
5 led drive + 4 row
6 led drive + 7 bottom row
7 led drive + 5 row
Please look at data sheet pic6b595
8 g_ all outout on
9 rck all (load new line)
10 serial data 4 low 1/2
11 serial data 4 upper 1/2
12 serial clock 4 low 1/2
13 LED GND
14 serial clock 4 high 1/2
15 12v for 5v for all the pic6b595's
16 gnd for reg
welshjpc:
Cool! I have emailed Incredible Technologies to ask if they can provide me with editing software for the bank on my Golden Tee Fore! 2005 MAME project but as it's Easter weekend I am not expecting a reply for a few days... I don't care that the hungry fox has a gumbo grab (is currently displaying) but only when I supply 12v and connect via network port on PC.... there must be a way of working this....
galaga.nz:
to use the game plug on the pcb you will need a USB-To-RS232-TTL-Converter-Adapter-Module
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1pcs-USB-To-RS232-TTL-Converter-Adapter-Module-PL2303-good-/230937056687?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35c4ebd5af