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