Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #06542
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: SG Sparkyg@seark.net
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 20:46:35 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: lcd name plates....
YA KNOW,
since these things take so little juice,
you could concievably hook it up
to a bicore's inverters that are ALREADY in use,
Like a HEAD.
when head turns right, word "right" comes on
and "left" for... well you know.
don't know what use it'd be other than kinda
neato show-off kinda thingy fer your desk.
At 06:09 PM 10/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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"
>> :)
>>
>> really kewl though!
>> -Sparky
>>
>> 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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