Hi there,
I am looking at a project for a group of students that involves building an Electronic Message Display. This is something which needs to be completed over a six month period ( approx 6 hours per week) and has to be reasonably substantial. Although the abilities of the students are limited, I do have a solid background in electronics.
The basic idea is to design a LED message display based upon building a sizeable LED matrix which will display 1 or 2 lines of text. Whilst there is little hardship in soldering hundreds of LEDs onto a large PCB or PCBs, it is really a question of how to drive the display?
Ideally it would be useful to use a PC to input any required message, and for this message then to be displayed on the LED display, perhaps scrolling sideways.
I have trawled the net and the closest I have come is at www.bobblick.com/techref/projects/ledsign/ledsign.html
Sadly this display is not large enough and so has limited use for me although some adapting could be done.
Each student will work on a different part of the project and will have to produce a reasonable report on their efforts.
If anybody knows of any sites that may fit the above then I would be very grateful for a pointer. If anybody has any ideas, that too would be very helpful.
Many thanks for taking time to read this.
Regards
John
I am looking at a project for a group of students that involves building an Electronic Message Display. This is something which needs to be completed over a six month period ( approx 6 hours per week) and has to be reasonably substantial. Although the abilities of the students are limited, I do have a solid background in electronics.
The basic idea is to design a LED message display based upon building a sizeable LED matrix which will display 1 or 2 lines of text. Whilst there is little hardship in soldering hundreds of LEDs onto a large PCB or PCBs, it is really a question of how to drive the display?
Ideally it would be useful to use a PC to input any required message, and for this message then to be displayed on the LED display, perhaps scrolling sideways.
I have trawled the net and the closest I have come is at www.bobblick.com/techref/projects/ledsign/ledsign.html
Sadly this display is not large enough and so has limited use for me although some adapting could be done.
Each student will work on a different part of the project and will have to produce a reasonable report on their efforts.
If anybody knows of any sites that may fit the above then I would be very grateful for a pointer. If anybody has any ideas, that too would be very helpful.
Many thanks for taking time to read this.
Regards
John