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Message #06545
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From: michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle)
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 23:24:12 -0300
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: lcd name plates....
how about a bot that tells how it feels with a LCD and messages that are preinputed
to flash up when it recives a certain stymulas
Sean Rigter wrote:
> A good idea and posted just before my "diagnostic indicator" suggestion. Guess
> you get the credit! Any other applications? Anyone?
>
> regards
>
> wilf
>
> SG wrote:
>
> > 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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