November 12, 2005, 8:28 pm
Scroll a message on my cable box
I made a quick&dirty hack to connect to my entertainment center management daemon. It will let you send a message which will scroll across the front of my cable box. It'll also display the first 16 characters on my TV screen (if the TV is on).Click here to send a message
It's actually not really a cable box anymore. I removed the face plate from the cable box and wired up the LED display to a ICM7218A which is plugged into the parallel port of my Linux computer. No other electronics than that! Some point down the road I plan to order another LED display and put the two side-by-side in the floppy bay in the PC in my entertainment center. But for now the cable box works.
Since the display is only 7 segments per character, some of the characters are rather funky. I wanted to make all the characters unique so they can be identified, but so far I haven't quite gotten used to them. But for the most part it is quite readable.
Posted 5 years, 2 months ago on November 12, 2005
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I'll have to see how it goes... later. When you're awake.
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