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LCD display for marquee, anyone ever done that?

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ChadTower:

Hrm... very small screen for the price, but you'd be able to do more than with an LCD pictureframe.

GAtekwriter:
I'm guessing you'd need to have 6 or 7 of these, side-to-side, to make one marquee sized display.  At $70 each, that would be a high-priced solution but I imagine it could be done.

Jim

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on June 21, 2007, 01:47:21 pm ---I Googled around a bit and found a promising manufacturer (didn't keep the link though) that produces LCD signage in different sizes. The smallest being like a large Marquee. It's mad money though, about a two or three thousand for the most basic.

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Did the same thing a couple years ago and when I saw the price range I decided on a $13.00 pre-printed generic one from mamemarquees.com.

ark_ader:
Why bother with that?

Have your marquees on a roller like a blind and have it scroll to the chosen game you are playing (obviously your options are limited) but maybe some trigger like mamehook which can drive a small motor or the like.  I'm sure some of you coders out there can bang something to gether pretty quickly.

Its very do'able.

So lets see who does it first!!!

NickG:
I have been brainstorming on changeable marquee options for a long time now and ended up getting two 15" lcds yesterday to mount flat and vertically in the back of my upright "Arcade Paradise 2" - shaped cabinet.  I tried a few things last night but I can't seem to get the optics corrected in the small space above my main crt.  I think I may have to use an LCD for my main monitor as well, just so I can have a fixed stretched image the shape of the marquee.  It has been a nightmare trying to research for examples of other DIY projects like this.  Google mostly comes up with patents, not so much consumer products. 

I had thought about the banner/tape method with stepper motors.  Then, alternatively, of a system for multi-game selection via the marquee itself.
Instead of the marquee changing mechanically via the game selection, one could manually roll or replace the marquee, which could be identified by Reactivision fiducial (using a camera) or via a barcodes setup.  Then this identification could be sent to an app to launch that specific game.

If anyone knows how to magnify the image and refix the viewing angle like a rear projection TV please post or PM me to help me find proper optics.

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