[TriLUG] [OT] [Off Topic] LED Digital Display

[Jim Wright]

Try searching the forums here...this is also a good site for the
electronic hobbyist thread...
http://www.eio.com/ledintro.htm 

Or you could try hacking an old color palm into being the display...then
you'd have backlighting and touchscreen too!

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Byarlay, Wayne A.
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:44 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: [TriLUG] [OT] [Off Topic] LED Digital Display

Hey, all!

I have in mind a dream computer which actually fits in my home
entertainment stereo stack. I want it to look slick & black in the
front, with a DVD drive, IR port for wireless kbd/mouse and Remote
Control, and to run MythTV (Of course it will be a Linux machine!)

For the front, I want a a complex display, like a stereo has, to display
stuff depending on what the machine is doing at the time: For instance,
if playing music, it might show the track name / CD info / Mp3 file info
/ level outputs. If watching a DVD, might display the chapter + time. If
you are working on the machine, maybe it could display the CPU temp,
network activity, CPU usage bar, etc.

Where could I possibly get a display like this? I realize that I'd have
to probably program drivers & stuff for it. But that's the FUN part! =)

Has anybody else ever done this? or know where I could get such a
complex LED (Not LCD, not bright enough unless it's backlit or color)?

-- 
TriLUG mailing list        :
http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member
Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
TriLUG PGP Keyring         : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc