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Really Big Outdoor-readable Displays?

2005-04-10 by David Kelly

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.

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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