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for the displays, Alltronics has to have the best price around

http://www.alltronics.com/displays.htm

[97l012.jpg (5752 bytes)] 5x8 MULTI-COLOR LED DISPLAY

Low power consumption, high contrast and brightness, single plane, wide
viewing angle. 5x7 array with X/Y select (anode column/cathode row)
Orange and green LEDs in each cell; yellow when both are on, white when
both are off.. Compatible with USASCII and EBCDIC. Stackable vertically
and horizontally. Overall size 1-1/2"W x 2-3/8"L x 5/16"D. Mfr. P/N
LTP2458AA-NB. Data sheet included.

97L012 $7.99 each

Amaury

On 19 Aug 2001 08:42:09 -0500, rad0 wrote:
> Hello picsters!
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> I want to tinker with an 8 x 5 led matrix...
>=20
> and I want to use a master to serially send out two bytes, the first bein=
g a
> reference number for each matrix, followed by a second number
> to turn on or off each dot in the matrix...
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>=20
> and my solution so far has been to use a 16F876 to set up one pin
> to listen for a reference number, then use the next number to turn on the
> dots...
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>=20
>=20
> well, there's got to be a cheaper way to do this... with the cost of the =
pic
> and
> the dot matrix together....the entire thing gets to be quite pricey....ev=
en
> the cost
> of just the dot matrices sort of makes me shudder....
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> anybody have a more elegant, less costly, probably obvious except to me--
> solution?
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> thanks.
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> also, I was planning on making or having a little piggyback circuit board
> produced
> for each matrix, so that they would in effect become modules, so, well
> nothing I
> guess, that's just what I was thinking....
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