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Title: Building Electronic Scoreboard
Post by: GodSend25 on December 29, 2004, 04:16:48 pm

I was lucky enough to recieve a full sized rod hockey game under the tree this christmas.  Its no chexx, but its actually quite nice considering how dirt cheap it is. 

Anyways I was thinking it would be nice to build a little scoreboard to go along with it, but I have no idea where to start.   My thinking would be it would consist of a main board which powered 2 LCDS ("Home" and "Way").  A microswitch similar to that at in a coin door would be installed in each puck return shoot so that when scored on the trigger would be activated.

Any idea if there is an commerically available counting modules that would be good this this project?   

Title: Re: Building Electronic Scoreboard
Post by: ChadTower on December 29, 2004, 04:22:32 pm

ROD HOCKEY

Title: Re: Building Electronic Scoreboard
Post by: stevejt on December 29, 2004, 04:31:45 pm

I beleive Radio Shack still sells a digital counter unit.  You solder to it to add the counter switch, reset buttons, etc.  It should be easy to wire 2 of them to "lever micro switches" and a reset buttons.  That's just what came to mind...

Steve

Title: Re: Building Electronic Scoreboard
Post by: GodSend25 on December 30, 2004, 09:05:54 am

Ive found a bunch of hobby kits online for 2 digit displays, but im not confident I can put them together (I wouldent particularly enjoy it, thats for sure).