It's summer once again and most of us take a little ease from work and school. I usually take my break, though not necessarily a rest, to enjoy myself and refresh my skills by making interesting and feasible project which I hope would make a little money as a result. And so this summer I'm making a low-cost pc-controlled games scoreboard, y'know like the electronic basketball scoreboard hanging at the center of the gym but only this one is interfaced to a pc so that a database of the game can be recorded as well as display scores and time for the spectators to see. Various scoreboards are already out in the market but i bet this kind only exists in big gymnasiums and very expensive.
I've already started designing the hardware. I'ts an embedded circuit with probably a zilog exx or microchip pic16xxx microcontroller as its brain, all parts are locally available (phils). I havnt decided on the display yet but it can be either an ssd or matrix depending on whether it can be handled effeciently by the hardware-software tandem. ok, i'm a firmware programmer and not an applications programmer. i don't do gui's nor dbms. but i will reserve 1 input & 1 output ports solely for serial handshaking and data transport. so if anybody is interested (electronics or software) to collaborate with me in this project, we'll do the cha-cha and the tango and have some fun... and perhaps extra money in the long run, who knows? I've an easy to capture, sure-win target market in mind that will make this project a potential money machine, i hope. -- Powered by Outblaze
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