AW: [basicstamps] BIG bargraph
Hallo!
>I'm trying to setup a really big (about 5-6ft) VU meter for audio, and
>I'm trying to figure out the best way to make it so that it's visible
>from all sides.. it'll probably be vertical, and free standing. I want
>something with the brightness of light bulbs, but the speed and
>reliability of LEDs.
>
>any ideas?
As I had the same idea I can forward my solution to you:
I got some defect LCDs and removed the LED-backlight module and
will use this for the VU-meter elements. Each module is about 100mm x 30mm.
So a VU-Meter with 10 modules is about 1meter long.
Ciao
Peter
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>I'm trying to setup a really big (about 5-6ft) VU meter for audio, and
>I'm trying to figure out the best way to make it so that it's visible
>from all sides.. it'll probably be vertical, and free standing. I want
>something with the brightness of light bulbs, but the speed and
>reliability of LEDs.
>
>any ideas?
As I had the same idea I can forward my solution to you:
I got some defect LCDs and removed the LED-backlight module and
will use this for the VU-meter elements. Each module is about 100mm x 30mm.
So a VU-Meter with 10 modules is about 1meter long.
Ciao
Peter
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(o o)
--oOOO--(_)--OOOo
Ing. Peter Ullrich mailto:ullrich@k...
Homepage: http://come.to/ullrich or the full link
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3586/
Hardware & Software Developer / Electronic Musician
.oooO KAPSCH AG / ECCN Vienna / Austria
( ) Oooo. Traffic Control and Transmission Technology
----\ (----( )
\_) ) /
(_/
v
Comments
thanks.
Jason
Ullrich Peter wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> >I'm trying to setup a really big (about 5-6ft) VU meter for audio, and
> >I'm trying to figure out the best way to make it so that it's visible
> >from all sides.. it'll probably be vertical, and free standing. I want
> >something with the brightness of light bulbs, but the speed and
> >reliability of LEDs.
> >
> >any ideas?
>
> As I had the same idea I can forward my solution to you:
>
> I got some defect LCDs and removed the LED-backlight module and
> will use this for the VU-meter elements. Each module is about 100mm x 30mm.
> So a VU-Meter with 10 modules is about 1meter long.
>
> Ciao
> Peter
>
> \|/
> (o o)
> --oOOO--(_)--OOOo
> Ing. Peter Ullrich mailto:ullrich@k...
> Homepage: http://come.to/ullrich or the full link
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3586/
> Hardware & Software Developer / Electronic Musician
> .oooO KAPSCH AG / ECCN Vienna / Austria
> ( ) Oooo. Traffic Control and Transmission Technology
> ----\ (----( )
> \_) ) /
> (_/
> v
solid state relays from the bar graph controller with red lights...
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Ullrich Peter wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> >I'm trying to setup a really big (about 5-6ft) VU meter for audio, and
> >I'm trying to figure out the best way to make it so that it's visible
> >from all sides.. it'll probably be vertical, and free standing. I want
> >something with the brightness of light bulbs, but the speed and
> >reliability of LEDs.
> >
> >any ideas?
>
> As I had the same idea I can forward my solution to you:
>
> I got some defect LCDs and removed the LED-backlight module and
> will use this for the VU-meter elements. Each module is about 100mm x 30mm.
> So a VU-Meter with 10 modules is about 1meter long.
>
>
> Ciao
> Peter
>
> \|/
> (o o)
> --oOOO--(_)--OOOo
> Ing. Peter Ullrich mailto:ullrich@k...
> Homepage: http://come.to/ullrich or the full link
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/3586/
> Hardware & Software Developer / Electronic Musician
> .oooO KAPSCH AG / ECCN Vienna / Austria
> ( ) Oooo. Traffic Control and Transmission Technology
> ----\ (----( )
> \_) ) /
> (_/
> v
>
>
>
>
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