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Looking for a small display recommendation

colporteur
colporteur over 2 years ago

Does any member have a recommendation for a small display that is appropriate for scrolling from right to left?

After an hour culling the adafruit website with few returns, I have come to the E14 community hopefully to get a recommendation. I've been asked to build a two signs, one that scrolls "Welcome to Snow Island"  and the other "Thank you for Visiting Snow" Island. The signs will be positioned on top of a bridge on an HO scale model railroad layout.

I had hoped to use a MAX7219 Dot led Matrix MCU 8x32 but it is way to large for the foot print I have to work with. The bridge has a large flat surface about 4X4 inches to hold the sign.

Like any model railroad project cost is a factor. I don't have a big budget. I'm hoping to combine the display with an Nano Arduino to simulate a continuous text scrolling road sign to message visitors.

If your suggestions could contain the source for the part that would be great.

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  • colporteur
    colporteur over 2 years ago +5
    Thank you for the input folks. Here are two displays I have ordered. If the displays on the left work it should be fairly simple to finish the project. Very little work on my part. The display on the right…
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    colporteur over 2 years ago in reply to colporteur +4
    community.element14.com/.../IMG_5F00_2289.MOV Do I buy or do I build? The S1144 (far left) displays arrived today. After installing the configuration software the display I wanted was working. At $10…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 2 years ago in reply to beacon_dave +3
    Just saw these, look quite nice, just under 3.7" wide, available in many colors, and very cheap! However they either work for the use-case, or don't, since the behaviour of them is only configurable…
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    dougw over 2 years ago

    Have you looked at LilyGo? - they have a bunch of microcontrollers with Displays already mounted.

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    dougw over 2 years ago

    Have you looked at LilyGo? - they have a bunch of microcontrollers with Displays already mounted.

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