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Bender:
This is awesome don't know how I missed it :applaud: :applaud:
can't wait to see the lcd in the marquee, and a rotating monitor in an 8" cab just so cool!
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: shatteredzman on August 08, 2009, 01:06:52 am ---Your rotating monitor plan looks a lot like mine. I am interested to see how you do yours.
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Well so far all I have is a small 4" rotating plate ("lazy susan", Madico 27661). I did work fine for my previous cabinet (manual rotation) and the weight of the LCD isn't that much (about 400 grams), I don't think a small 5 volts motor will have any problem rotating the whole thing. I'm thinking LEGO motor and gears controlled by a small PIC micrcontroller with limit switches, since I'm going to need a PIC for my 7-segment credit coin counter anyway. Hopefully I will be able to have the computer send a rotation signal via the parallel port to the PIC.
Yvan256:
--- Quote from: Bender on August 08, 2009, 03:02:54 pm ---This is awesome don't know how I missed it :applaud: :applaud:
can't wait to see the lcd in the marquee, and a rotating monitor in an 8" cab just so cool!
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Yeah well that LCD is giving me a lot of headaches... You see, there is supposed to be only two different types of controllers. I have tried the code for both and nothing seems to work.
And if you look at the pictures, it seems I have a third, unknown LCD type:
Epson controller (notice the dark connector in the red circle, along with the white area around the silver strip which is the controller itself):
Philips controller (notice the green connector with the NXP white text, along with the dark area around the controller):
Well, wouldn't you know it, I have a third, different LCD (dark connector like an Epson but dark area around the controller like a Philips):
And I don't care if the little red sticker says "Epson", the Epson controller codes don't seem to work. :angry:
shatteredzman:
--- Quote from: Yvan256 on August 08, 2009, 04:07:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: shatteredzman on August 08, 2009, 01:06:52 am ---Your rotating monitor plan looks a lot like mine. I am interested to see how you do yours.
--- End quote ---
Well so far all I have is a small 4" rotating plate ("lazy susan", Madico 27661). I did work fine for my previous cabinet (manual rotation) and the weight of the LCD isn't that much (about 400 grams), I don't think a small 5 volts motor will have any problem rotating the whole thing. I'm thinking LEGO motor and gears controlled by a small PIC micrcontroller with limit switches, since I'm going to need a PIC for my 7-segment credit coin counter anyway. Hopefully I will be able to have the computer send a rotation signal via the parallel port to the PIC.
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That is a lot more sophisticated than my design. I turn mine manually because I did not want to have more things that could break. I wish I had the skill to do a automatic rotation like you are doing.
vrf:
well here's something cool....
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