Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #06538
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Jim Cook beamboter@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:04:15 -0400
Subject: Re: solarbotics orders....
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> Rik
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> dave is acutually really good about that. I placed a big order like 5 days
> before Christmas and it came Christmas day...tell me thats not cool.
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> I live in mass to boot.
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> Sincerely,
> Jim Cook
> beamboter@hotmail.com
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/9874
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> >i just ordered my first shipment from solarbotics...and at the end of the
> >process it estimates 3 - 6 WEEKS for shipping!!!!! ... i was just
wondering
> >how accurate that is? (im gonna die if i gotta wait that long!..im way to
> >excited about getting started )..
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6539 Fri, 08 Oct 1999 18:09:46 -0700 [alt-beam] Re: lcd name plates.... beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Sean Rigter Hi Sparky
The following letters can be intelligibly displayed
A,b,C/c,d,E,F,G/g,H/h,i, J,L,o,P,S,t,U/u or V/v, y, Z.
and the numbers 0-9 with the 5 and S doubling up.
There are other letters but at the risk of confusion
with numerals.
There are also (rare) 16 segment displays that can
display the whole alphabet and can be similarly
controlled with bicores
Finally, there true multiline character displays that
can (with some difficulty) also be BEAMerized!
regards
wilf
SG wrote:
> hmmm... wunder how you'd make a "T"
> :)
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> really kewl though!
> -Sparky
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> At 12:45 PM 10/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >74HC240 or HCT240 pin 1,19,20 = +3V, pin 4,6,8,11,13,15 = 0V
> >Bicore caps between pin 17,18 and between 2,3. Resistor between pin 2 and
> 17. Pin 3 is connected to the "on" segments and pin
> >18 is connected to the backplane (BP) and "off" segments. LCD terminals
> DP means decimal point or collons. The LCD pinout is
> >used for illustration only.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >wilf
> >
> >Michael Hirtle wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Wilf the nly problem i have with this is where do u place the power
> supply leads?
> >>
> >> Sean Rigter wrote:
> >>
> >> > (Formatted this time and with the GIF attached).
> >> >
> >> > Ahh! Great idea Ian! Seven segment type numerical LCDs say from a
> broken digital clock or calculator. I
> >
> >
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