On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Cole Christopher J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know a cheap place (hopefully in the UK) to get hold of some relatively large (say about 60cm x 10cm) LED Matrix displays from? The kind of displays used for 'tickertape' scrolling displays commonly seen at conference centres etc. No need for exceedingly high resolution, multicolour or any other fancy things, just enough to display a line of 10cm high characters, fairly brightly.

they are made of 7*5 or 8*8 modules you can find at farnell or
radiospares. these modules can be set up to be right next to each other
and form a large wall.

Amaury

>
> A quick prod at the RS catalogue only yielded some very expensive units with built in RS232 links & PC based software, a bit of an overkill for my requirements.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
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