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| javeryh:
--- Quote from: bkenobi on July 14, 2009, 10:40:43 am ---I personally don't use any of this. I have solid buttons and no LCD anywhere. I just use CP Wizard launched before each game to tell the user what is active. I like lit buttons, but I really don't like the price. I haven't been willing to drop ~$200 for my 2 player CP when I don't think it will add that much usability or even cool factor. --- End quote --- Same here. I might try some bling way way way down the line if I ever get that mansion with a dedicated gameroom but for now if something doesn't add to the WAF then I want no part of it. Did any one else hear that whip crack or is it just me?? |
| AndyWarne:
Buttons with built-in LCD screens are made by a number of amusement parts suppliers such as Gamesman and Industrias-Lorenzo. But they are all rectangular. I doubt if we will ever see a round one of these, the size of a normal arcade button. Andy |
| koz319:
Well, I was saving this for when it was completely finished, but in a word, yes, sorta, kinda :) I bought 30 surplus oled modules on ebay for $1 each that seem to be (almost?) identical to these: http://www.crystalfontz.com/product/CFAL12864N-A-B1.html (the ones I have are the same size, same connector, 2 color, same controller, but say different manufacturer) Currently, its all running in prototype form. I'm using an FTDI FT232RL breakout board as a usb->serial driver for an atmel dev board I had laying around, which parses commands from the serial data and shifts data out to the individual displays. I have a prototype control panel with the displays inlaid on top of the panel but under the lexan cover. The panel has two joystics w/ 6 buttons each, and a player 1 and 2 button. Each joystick gets 1 display. The admin displays are at the top of the panel with the displays just below. The six buttons per player are 2 rows of three. each button with a display, with the displays above the top row and below the bottom. And yes, aligning the displays was painful. I have a crude plugin for mala running as ringmaster for this circus at the moment. Everything is far from a finished state, and development has stopped cold due to the fact that our first kids (twins!) decided they just couldn't wait to meet us and arrived 2 months early. :) I'll try to take some pics of the displays in action if I can, but it may be a little while. (The workshop is sort of verboten at the moment) I was actually hoping to be able to make some of these available once I was finished, but who knows when that will be now. If I can ever get it to the state where it's not horribly embarrassing maybe I'll just open source the whole thing. Anyway, I'll try to get some pics sometime soon. Koz |
| GaryMcT:
koz, Awesome! I can't wait to see this! |
| rooter:
--- Quote from: drventure on July 13, 2009, 07:11:09 pm ---I don't imagine you could use that PICOLCD for that purpose, its a tad big. The Crystal screen might work. I've seen a keyboard that has an OLED in every key to label them, but it's INSANELY expensive. I'm guessing it might be easier and work a little better to get a small LCD screen (say 4x5 or so, from a car stereo TV or something) and run an image out to it to show your CP layout, but that's just one idea. --- End quote --- I'm working the exact same thing right now. I bought a MiniDVD Player for under $20 and I am going to build the screen into my cab somewhere. I just have to figure out how to load an image on my second screen with a Frontend. I use Hyperspin currently, but I don't even know if what I want to do is possible with it. How are you guys planning on sending data to your monitors/lcds? |
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