thnx for the link, hard wyrd! the arduino project is pretty much like my
hobby project except they're working in a certain graphical environment
w/c autogenerate the code while i hardcode every line of the instructions
myself. atmel avr is a good microcontroller to work but it just so happen
that i just bought a zilog chip programmer with emulator and i want to
test it by application.
anyways, for info only of those interested, i've the necessary equipment:
oscilloscope, frequency counter, af generator and even an L-C meter in
case its needed. the board will be drawn in corel draw (its the only
vector program i know that can draw 0.025mm of trace between the ic pins)
and transferred on a photo-sensitive pcb w/c will be exposed using
ultra-voilet light. i built an 20-inch UV eeprom eraser for my project
last year. it will be perfect for this purpose.
but even with the hardware completed this would still be half-done
without the software interface, gui and all ...
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From: "hard wyrd"
To: "Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List"
Subject: Re: [klug] PC-Controlled Games Scoreboard
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:10:01 +0800
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.
On 4/14/07, mark navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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