I am making a scoreboard for my daughter school but come to halt when the digit are not displaying as per my expectation. The board is made out of 10 common anode 7 segment digits Arduino controlled SPI cascading the digits with 74hc595s. The scoreboard is made up of 4 digits for realtimer / countdown or up timer. the other 6 digits are for scores, three for Team A and the other three for Team B. My problem is how to make codes to run the scoreboard as explained. I would like assistance on the codes for both the 7 segment display as well as the wireless controller which has lcd display.
Please see attached as for what I plan to make and part of the schematic for the cascading digits.
First you need to get each system working by itself. Work through the examples. Look through sites like Ebay to get what displays you want. Find out what your size limitations are for a PCB.
I will say that this is not a trivial project. It will take time to get it all together. Since you are new, you need to start small and work your way up. Start with the timer, get a cheap display and get it working, then move up.
Start with counting all segments you want to display.
So 7 segments per number to display, each dot you want to control.
Maybe you should divide your tasks over multiple Arduino's
CrossRoads (a prominent member here) has several scoreboard projects so maybe he could help you out with some tips.
Do not expect people to do your work for wou however.
Second:
Do not put the same question (in different sections) multiple times on the board.
I replied here because i think this is the best place for this thread.
That'd be interesting.
The equivalent of eleven 15x48 displays and 28 7-segment displays.
I could see using 2 shift registers x 6 shift registers for each 16x48 display, multiplex by writing 1 of 48 columns across all 11 displays with each update.
Then use 7 MAX7219 to control all the digits.
Or depending on size, multiplex them with P-channel devices on common anodes and TPIC6B595's pulling cathodes low.
unzuza: just in case you do not understand - "CrossPosting" is the bad practice of posting the same question in more than one forum.
It is bad, because different people answer in each thread, and noone gets the benefit of seeing each others answers. Often one persons answers can inspire another to a better answer. It is also bad because it gets confusing if a person answers in one thread, and then an hour/day later ses the same question again, causing them to wonder if they are having a dejavu, lost their marbles, or the forum has lost the thread and wasting their time findingwhat they have answered before. Time they could spend answering a question.
If you are worried about being in the wrong forum (is this a programming or motor-driver problem, f.ex) just pick one of them. If you guessed completly wrong a moderator may move it. Most people get it right most of the time, if they just spend a moment thinking what question it is they are asking.
Do not crosspost (asking the same question more than once). You'll only irritate more than than speeding up getting an answer, and getting yourself ignored in the future. http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,148850.0.html - point 13.
Hi All,
I am sorry for cross posting, as newcomer I did not know where to post. However my request still remains I need the codes to drive / run 9 digits 7segment common cathode using the circuit attached. Four digits will be for the game time and two digits for home score and the other two for visitor, the last digit for the period. the timer should count down or up and also be show realtime when not showing game time. Please can some confirm the workability of my circuit if cascaded on the 9 digits. please note I tried it on one digit and it worked. Attached is my driver circuit and the digit design. thank you in advance.
JUN