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GSRebich

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Eggcrate Scoreboard Raspberry Pi
« on: May 08, 2025, 03:31:56 AM »
Does anyone know how to make an eggcrate scoreboard with LED modules and Raspberry Pi?

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Re: Eggcrate Scoreboard Raspberry Pi
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2025, 05:36:13 PM »
Does anyone know how to make an eggcrate scoreboard with LED modules and Raspberry Pi?

Nobody is going to be able to answer this for you off the top of their head, especially with the plethora of information you have provided.

Honestly, seriously, this is a discussion you would be better served having with ChatGPT. This is the kind of thing it excels at.
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cliffhanger285

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Re: Eggcrate Scoreboard Raspberry Pi
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2025, 06:13:23 PM »
Someone has been working on this over on BAV. ChatGPT certainly couldn’t have spat this out.

https://buyavowel.boards.net/thread/20782/scoreboard-prototype

GSRebich

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Re: Eggcrate Scoreboard Raspberry Pi
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2025, 09:28:14 PM »
Someone has been working on this over on BAV. ChatGPT certainly couldn’t have spat this out.

https://buyavowel.boards.net/thread/20782/scoreboard-prototype
Yeah, I've seen that, but right now his 3d print is down and the project is on hold.

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Re: Eggcrate Scoreboard Raspberry Pi
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2025, 10:36:48 AM »
3D printing is not rare in the year of our lawd two thousand and twenty-five
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Re: Eggcrate Scoreboard Raspberry Pi
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2025, 05:58:51 PM »
Does anyone know how to make an eggcrate scoreboard with LED modules and Raspberry Pi?

How authentic do you need it to be?

You need to settle on the type of lamp to use. This will determine the voltage used to drive the lamps. LED's would be best but will be expensive. The original readouts used type 1820 lamps driven at 28 V and were WAY TOO BRIGHT and were usually on a rheostat. The characters were formed by a diode matrix.

From memory I can tell you the holes for the lamps were 5/8" in diameter with about 1/16" between holes.

The readouts used on Twenty One present an interesting case because solid-state diodes did not exist yet. You could use a 12-position rotary switch and hard-wire the character forms to the lamps.

Have a look here:

https://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,31538.0.html

I'm not sure Raspberry-Pi is the right device to use for this.