Re: USB scrolling LED signs

["Frank Mc Alinden" <frankmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim

> It's a serial-controlled VFD attached to a Lantronics MSS-100
> serial-over-IP box. A bit smaller than the large LED signs but
> infinitely customisable.

I think this may be it...
http://www.hobby.armaghelectrical.com.au/page74.html

HTH
Frank



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] USB scrolling LED signs


> Frank's done this:
> http://www.hobby.armaghelectrical.com.au/page90.html
>
> And while ISTR there were some other photos, I can't seem to find them
> at the moment (it could of course have been someone else's photos....
> It's a serial-controlled VFD attached to a Lantronics MSS-100
> serial-over-IP box. A bit smaller than the large LED signs but
> infinitely customisable.
>
> HTH,
>
> Tim.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jamie Bennett
<jamie.bennett@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
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