Mini LED (Badge) Display

Hi Brian
Most of the LED displays are quite expensive but the badge style mini led board is just a few pounds (GBP).
Would it be possible to implement this.
Link below is to the software if that helps.
I have tried using the software to program the board using the text from customtextout.txt and the display is quite pleasing.

http://nanorivertech.com/miniboard-software.html
Best wishes
Alan

do you mean you got it working via customtextout.txt ?

Hi Brian
No I simply mean I used the copy & paste of the file onto its input program. I thought it might be a cheap and simple to show the air quality here (or other data) for my neighbours and it looked like a low cost way of doing that.
Just an idea.
Regards
Alan

Do you have a link to the led display and its interface specification? I don’t see anything like that at the link you posted :?

Hi
Thanks for the reply. I found this link which might help

http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1440

Regards
Alan

Thanks, that’s very interesting. Unfortunately according to that article the badge needs to be hacked to display continuously - and that is probably beyond most users :frowning:

I’m not sure if it needs hacking as I had it running continuously from the programmer software so I guess there must be a bit that forces continual. I’ll keep looking.
Regards
Alan

Only about $10 on ebay so I’ll get one to play with. Thanks for the thought :slight_smile:

I was going to send a quick video but it’s too large - I’ll try zipping tomorrow
Regards
Alan