Hello,
Ive been looking around the forum too see if anyone else is tackling this project, and it turns out there are many. Some of them were helpful, and others were not as inviting. To put it simply, my project will consist of a panel with 6x10 led lights (Red). I will be building many of these panels and connecting them to make what will look like to be a big overhead sign you can see at amusement parks. Where it will have "Welcome" scrolling across the top in a marquee. The one i am looking to design will have the following functions:
-6x10 RED LED grid
-usb compatible
-will plug into an 128v home outlet
-many display styles:
--Marquee
--None (will have to remain a single word)
--I was wondering if there was a type of transaction i could use, like in power point presentations
-Does not need to be plugged into a computer to function. The computer will remain as a tool that i can use to alter what the scrolling text is.
-[a-z]+[A-Z]+[0-9]+[Some special characters] (I have the patterns already done up)
-1mb storage (where i can leave the *.txt in which it can read from)
-An easy to manage application (not to advanced, but not too simple)
-Will showup as a removeable storage when windows xp detects its presance
-Some way to give information about my device (under the device manager, in windows xp)
I am up for the challenge, so please throw your ideas at me in a huge pile and ill do my best to sort through them, and use them to my advantage.
//What i know...
-Will require microcontrollers
-Programming required
-LED's require around 1v
-This will be a huge project
(That's not much is it '-.-)
Thankyou very much
~Cody Woolaver
Ive been looking around the forum too see if anyone else is tackling this project, and it turns out there are many. Some of them were helpful, and others were not as inviting. To put it simply, my project will consist of a panel with 6x10 led lights (Red). I will be building many of these panels and connecting them to make what will look like to be a big overhead sign you can see at amusement parks. Where it will have "Welcome" scrolling across the top in a marquee. The one i am looking to design will have the following functions:
-6x10 RED LED grid
-usb compatible
-will plug into an 128v home outlet
-many display styles:
--Marquee
--None (will have to remain a single word)
--I was wondering if there was a type of transaction i could use, like in power point presentations
-Does not need to be plugged into a computer to function. The computer will remain as a tool that i can use to alter what the scrolling text is.
-[a-z]+[A-Z]+[0-9]+[Some special characters] (I have the patterns already done up)
-1mb storage (where i can leave the *.txt in which it can read from)
-An easy to manage application (not to advanced, but not too simple)
-Will showup as a removeable storage when windows xp detects its presance
-Some way to give information about my device (under the device manager, in windows xp)
I am up for the challenge, so please throw your ideas at me in a huge pile and ill do my best to sort through them, and use them to my advantage.
//What i know...
-Will require microcontrollers
-Programming required
-LED's require around 1v
-This will be a huge project
(That's not much is it '-.-)
Thankyou very much
~Cody Woolaver
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