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A few ideas...

- Use a large reflective-substrate LCD?

- Get an off-the-shelf outdoor LED display?
http://www.spectra-displays.co.uk/32.php

- Watch for a surplus display from a city bus, the electromechanical
type where the segments or pixels are actually florescent dots that are
flipped over?

Best Regards,
Dave

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 11:22 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> While the topic of displays is active, any interesting low-budget 
> solutions of large outdoor readable displays? Digits have to be at 
> least 2" high. Would really like to have one of those florescent dot 
> displays which many businesses use on their street signs, but can't 
> afford one. At least not a new one.
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> In Hare Scrambles (and similar) motorcycle races we usually use barcode 
> stickers on the helmet to score. Rider enters a tent (barcode reads 
> best in the shade) to be scanned then the rider zooms out. The scoring 
> computer instantly knows his position but the idea is to have a display 
> suitable for showing it to the rider.
> 
> This is me, on the motorcycle, getting scored: http://tinyurl.com/25z87
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> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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