People in my office think I'm odd..

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I made a big led display to go on my wall to monitor our web servers.

I'm not that knowledgeable with circuits and all that yet, so I made another project with the cheap little led display sold here:
http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/DSY-1/MULTIFUNCTION-LED-DISPLAY-MODULE/1.html

5 wires per display straight to the Arduino. (iDuino in this case) The rest is all programming.

I'm also not that great on documenting the projects, but I hate the trend of people showing things off via youtube or whatever and not having a single mention of how it was built. So.. here is my mini blog post on it: http://www.82smugglers.com/blog/?p=7

The code is basically the same as used in my weather display from this winter. That code is here: http://www.82smugglers.com/blog/?p=3

Although I do want to rewrite the code and add in a few more feature.. like scrolling text and such.

Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.

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Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.

I really like the quality of the enclosure. :slight_smile:

--Phil.

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Definitely a very professional looking enclosure.
I am sure not many in your office are odd enough
to come up with a truly useful gadget like this one.
Just remind them that odd takes you into a higher
pay scale : )

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First of all, I've got to say good work man!

Second.. I read the page thinking "I have read this before.. is this guy just claiming credit for someone elses work?". I go to comment on the cool project, and lo and behold! I have already commented! x)

Kim Helberg Said,

May 27, 2008 @ 4:46 am

Wow.. I am amazed at how smooth and proffessional the construction looks! Geek cred to you, man, it[ch8217]s always cool to see projects that bring thing from the computer world out into our physical world!

And besides, if I built something like that it would probably be mounted on a piece of cardboard, with generous amounts of ducttape to hold things together.. -_-[ch8217]

Yeah, that's me! ;D