Maybe you could also take a look at using the Arduino project. It's a multipurpose circuit and purely opensource from schematics, to everything. Plus it support USB, Bluetooth or what have you and fully programmable for multipurpose use. You might be able to use that for your project too. But it might also be too much for your current requirements. But worth looking at i think.
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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. -- <http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=ao-linuxmail_a_01> Powered by Outblaze _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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