justin hulbert
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Hi,
I’m Justin Hulbert this is my first post here I’m hoping your all just a friendly and helpful as everyone over at Parallax.
I must first say that I have yet to even buy a PICAXE yet. Since I only found out about them last night. But I have already fallen in love with them, and plan to buy a bunch ASAP. The price is just amazing and the software is so cool. I love the fact that you can test the code virtually. I also found out last night that you can use it to program basic stamps. So I tried it out, I have always dreamed of being able to code using a flow chart.
Any way I’m here about a project I want to start working on. I was going to do it with a Basic Stamp but i think i want to try and use a PICAXE Here is my idea sort of simplified.
Get or build a bunch of them large 5 x 8 LED matrixes 10 to 15 hock them together in a row. Build some sort of frame and mount them in it. Add some PICAXE chips to control the matrixes like an LCD so you can just use a serial out command. Maybe even add one of them little wireless modules. Mount It all to the wall in my room.
Now build and program some sort of controller that can receive the "text" from
the computer and send it to the LED matrix and scroll it. It would be 1000 times cooler if the “text” was an RSS feed or the song title of the song your listening to on your computer. But that would most likely be much harder to do and is a feature you could add latter.
Has anyone heard of a project like this before if so I’d love to take a look at the thing and some code? Also is it ever going to be possible for me to send an RSS Feed to the display using only a PICAXE.
Any ideas are great, since at the moment I’m just trying to figure this all out and get an idea of what ill need.
Thanks,
Justin Hulbert
I’m Justin Hulbert this is my first post here I’m hoping your all just a friendly and helpful as everyone over at Parallax.
I must first say that I have yet to even buy a PICAXE yet. Since I only found out about them last night. But I have already fallen in love with them, and plan to buy a bunch ASAP. The price is just amazing and the software is so cool. I love the fact that you can test the code virtually. I also found out last night that you can use it to program basic stamps. So I tried it out, I have always dreamed of being able to code using a flow chart.
Any way I’m here about a project I want to start working on. I was going to do it with a Basic Stamp but i think i want to try and use a PICAXE Here is my idea sort of simplified.
Get or build a bunch of them large 5 x 8 LED matrixes 10 to 15 hock them together in a row. Build some sort of frame and mount them in it. Add some PICAXE chips to control the matrixes like an LCD so you can just use a serial out command. Maybe even add one of them little wireless modules. Mount It all to the wall in my room.
Now build and program some sort of controller that can receive the "text" from
the computer and send it to the LED matrix and scroll it. It would be 1000 times cooler if the “text” was an RSS feed or the song title of the song your listening to on your computer. But that would most likely be much harder to do and is a feature you could add latter.
Has anyone heard of a project like this before if so I’d love to take a look at the thing and some code? Also is it ever going to be possible for me to send an RSS Feed to the display using only a PICAXE.
Any ideas are great, since at the moment I’m just trying to figure this all out and get an idea of what ill need.
Thanks,
Justin Hulbert
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