Hi people, We've just finished developing an LED [1] scrolling display, and are just about to start production. Check out a pic of the prototype: <http://tinypic.com/m/6itmw5/4>. It's dimensions are 185 x 16 x 6 cm. It's got a display area of 69 x 8 LEDs, and the LEDs are 1 cm apart, both horizontally and vertically. Other features include: - modifiable messages - variable scrolling speeds - accompanying desktop GUI desktop software for creating and entering messages If anyone would like to pre-order one, see a live demo, obtain more information, or is interested otherwise, please let me know. Regards, Joseph. [1] Light-emitting diode: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode
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Truly amazing! Not that i need one, are there different sizes? do you have it in monochrome only? This is for me only. Is there an API I could use to develope software for it (incase... for future purposes)? Steve Obbayi US: +1 202 297 6831 KE: +254 722 627691 http://sobbayi.com
Hi people,
We've just finished developing an LED [1] scrolling display, and are just about to start production.
Check out a pic of the prototype: <http://tinypic.com/m/6itmw5/4>. It's dimensions are 185 x 16 x 6 cm. It's got a display area of 69 x 8 LEDs, and the LEDs are 1 cm apart, both horizontally and vertically.
Other features include: - modifiable messages - variable scrolling speeds - accompanying desktop GUI desktop software for creating and entering messages
If anyone would like to pre-order one, see a live demo, obtain more information, or is interested otherwise, please let me know.
Regards,
Joseph.
[1] Light-emitting diode: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:53 AM, <steve@sobbayi.com> wrote:
Truly amazing! Not that i need one, are there different sizes? do you have it in monochrome only? This is for me only. Is there an API I could use to develope software for it (incase... for future purposes)?
Hi Steve, At the moment, we're only focusing on the small size(s). And the current version is monochrome only. We're a very small team, so we aren't able to add features as fast as we'd like to. Over the next few months, our priority is going to be reaching out to the market, and ramping up production. But we plan to bring out bigger displays later, as the design is flexible enough to accommodate that. We also plan to add a public API to support external developers. We also plan to add full-color capability in future versions. What kind of API technology would you like to see? And what kind of applications do you imagine developing software for? Regards, Joseph.
@Joseph, nice one! I know you mentioned somewhere, but I'd suggest you guys also look into full colour displays which can replace the traditional video walls on offer on rentals. The ultimate will be ad displays at football matches, suggest you guys try and linkup with ad agencies for the ultimate market. Good luck.
Its not opening, ama iko sida kwa komputa yake?!?! On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@Joseph, nice one! I know you mentioned somewhere, but I'd suggest you guys also look into full colour displays which can replace the traditional video walls on offer on rentals. The ultimate will be ad displays at football matches, suggest you guys try and linkup with ad agencies for the ultimate market. Good luck.
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@Joseph, nice one! I know you mentioned somewhere, but I'd suggest you guys also look into full colour displays which can replace the traditional video walls on offer on rentals. The ultimate will be ad displays at football matches, suggest you guys try and linkup with ad agencies for the ultimate market. Good luck.
Hi Aki, Thanks. We have very big plans for this thing, but of course, we have to start somewhere. Full colour and bigger displays will be coming later. And yeah, we'll be talking to all sorts of potential partners, including advertising agencies. We'll also be adding all sorts of features in later versions. The thing is powered by multiple Intel 8051 microcontrollers, and we've written an operating system for it, that has interesting features, including multitasking. Joseph.
Very interesting, are you looking for investors? My advice?Develop products that will help SMEs reach the masses......... On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:21 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@Joseph, nice one! I know you mentioned somewhere, but I'd suggest you guys also look into full colour displays which can replace the traditional video walls on offer on rentals. The ultimate will be ad displays at football matches, suggest you guys try and linkup with ad agencies for the ultimate market. Good luck.
Hi Aki,
Thanks. We have very big plans for this thing, but of course, we have to start somewhere.
Full colour and bigger displays will be coming later. And yeah, we'll be talking to all sorts of potential partners, including advertising agencies.
We'll also be adding all sorts of features in later versions. The thing is powered by multiple Intel 8051 microcontrollers, and we've written an operating system for it, that has interesting features, including multitasking.
Joseph.
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com>wrote:
Very interesting, are you looking for investors?
My advice?Develop products that will help SMEs reach the masses.........
We aren't actively looking for investors at the moment, but we'd be willing to listen to any proposals. Yeah, SMEs are our main target market, at least initially, but we'll later on also focus on big corporates, and maybe later, the consumer market. Joseph.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
We'll also be adding all sorts of features in later versions. The thing is powered by multiple Intel 8051 microcontrollers, and we've written an operating system for it, that has interesting features, including multitasking.
Joseph.
Congrats again on the hard ground work on processor programming and good luck with evolving it. :-) If we have a BD person on board, they need to know about your development work. As fellow skunker, I'd nominate you as a most innovative person of last quarter of 2009 in tech sector.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Congrats again on the hard ground work on processor programming and good luck with evolving it. :-) If we have a BD person on board, they need to know about your development work. As fellow skunker, I'd nominate you as a most innovative person of last quarter of 2009 in tech sector.
Aki, Thanks for the support. It's been a number of years of hard, but interesting work. As for your nomination, I'm sorry, but I can't take the credit for the "real" work. But I'll be sure to pass your comments to the developers. Joseph.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Steve,
At the moment, we're only focusing on the small size(s). And the current version is monochrome only.
We're a very small team, so we aren't able to add features as fast as we'd like to. Over the next few months, our priority is going to be reaching out to the market, and ramping up production.
But we plan to bring out bigger displays later, as the design is flexible enough to accommodate that. We also plan to add a public API to support external developers. We also plan to add full-color capability in future versions.
What kind of API technology would you like to see? And what kind of applications do you imagine developing software for?
Regards,
Joseph.
Let me just clarify about the API. For now, the display does not have a high-level public API, but we are considering developing one in the near future. However, we have a display manager application (that runs on a dektop computer) that uses a low-level API to communicate with the display. This low-level API is used to communicate with the display via a computer's serial port. The data that is sent to the display is text that is formatted in a custom procedural markup language. The display has an interpreter that reads in this text, and displays it. It currently support a "batch" mode, where the data is read in, and displayed, in batches. We are currently testing a "real-time" mode (which is usable for streaming live data), which reads in, and displays data, as it is comes in through the serial port. I have attached a preview of the markup language documentation, to give an idea. Joseph.
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