Re: USB scrolling LED signs

[Joel Richards <jo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jamie,

I've done a similar solution to what it looks like you want. I bought a
cheapish LED display for ~=A380 or so, which came with some windows
softwar=
e..
it seemed the protocol wasn't easy to get hold of but I managed to do
enoug=
h
packet sniffing to work it out, shortly after I found a spec sheet which
helped a bit for other functionality.. Anyhow mine was one of these:
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=3Dskytronic+led+display+7+x+120&hl=3Den
although I got mine from a place that were selling them off so they were a
bit cheaper than that.

I eventually used it to have people from the web send messages to it (
www.easyjo.com/led.php not online now), but am now just using it for RSS
feeds etc, running from a PHP script (PHP to serial/usb erk!)..

Anyhow, in summary I would imagine any USB controlled LED display would be
fairly easy to have control of over command line, if you want I can send
over my source...

Joel Richards


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jamie Bennett
<jamie.bennett@xxxxxxx>wro=
te:

>
>
> Anyone have idea's?
>
> I'm looking for a LED display that I can routinely send messages to
via
> usb through the command line (I only have Linux based machines here)
and
> is of a reasonable wall-mounted size (around 1 meter?).
>
> What I'm trying to achieve is a wall mounted information display that
> will give short messages in my office. I want to use it as a
> informational display to give me cues on impending calendar events,
> inbox status e.t.c but be sufficiently detached i.e. on the wall for
me
> to glance at it without it distracting me every 2 minutes on the
> computer.
>
> Anyone seen something like this at a reasonable price?
>
> Regards,
> Jamie.
>
>=20=20
>


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