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ilanz_bess

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DIY electronic scoreboard
« on: October 28, 2014, 02:28:07 PM »
Hi guys, just wondering if anyone tried to build an electronic scoreboard themselves. It's pretty costly to buy an electronic scoreboard where I live (Trinidad), somewhere in excess of $20,000, so I was considering building it myself....
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2014, 02:47:12 PM »
Oh good idea! Would be complicated unless you know how to create and program the PCB's though, mind you there are ways around that too...
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2014, 02:47:30 PM »
Lad at our club did it but he has a degree in electronics, its solar powered so self running even with the severe lack of sun we see over here in the UK!

ball park cost was under £1k but he sourced parts from all over the world with some trial and error in getting there.

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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2014, 02:54:50 PM »
Quote from: Ayrtek on October 28, 2014, 02:47:30 PM
Lad at our club did it but he has a degree in electronics, its solar powered so self running even with the severe lack of sun we see over here in the UK!

ball park cost was under £1k but he sourced parts from all over the world with some trial and error in getting there.

Yeah to make some complicated circuitry would require some pretty technical details, I did electronics at A level and would definitely struggle (especially as that was ten years ago) however if its just a display that isn't connected up to a score box, i.e. just an electronic version of a manual scoreboard then it wouldn't take a lot at all.
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2014, 02:59:14 PM »
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2014, 03:26:10 PM »
If it's simply a display unit, you can do it very simply. Lump of MDF with spaces cut out, a set of seven segment displays, wires and a car battery (plus a solar panel for charging/running when sunny) with some appropriate switches and you can display it all electronically.
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2014, 05:35:07 PM »
Thanks for the input guys. Display will consist of 8" and 12" seven segment displays, using led strips, couple of microprocessors as well. Think I will be using a steel sheet instead of the mdf, as I'm trying to make sure it can withstand a shower or two. Basically I have all the coding I think I might need, thanks to the internet  :D the real problem is trying to make the system wireless...but I guess I'm just trying to be too pretty.

Ayrtek, would love too see how you all went about making the scoreboard solar powered.

Will post pics once I'm done. If anyone is interested, once completed, I have no problems in sharing the info...
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2014, 05:38:25 PM »
Quote from: Ayrtek on October 28, 2014, 02:47:30 PM
Lad at our club did it but he has a degree in electronics, its solar powered so self running even with the severe lack of sun we see over here in the UK!

ball park cost was under £1k but he sourced parts from all over the world with some trial and error in getting there.

Already have most of the parts sourced, and I have a final design in mind. Would love if you could post some pics of your scoreboard. And what sort of control box/system do you use?
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2014, 05:40:56 PM »
If you juts want to control it within viewing distance would an infa red sensor perhaps not work with a remote? Unless you mean wireless as in from a long distance.
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2014, 05:51:27 PM »
Basically, this is what the layout should look like
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2014, 06:05:06 PM »
Any rough sense of scale mate  :)?
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2014, 07:29:06 PM »
Here is our scoreboard it runs of a palm or ipad via bluetooth.
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2014, 08:00:14 PM »
We upgraded our old score board last year to LED running off an iPad and it was £1500 and that was mainly the iPad and the actual LED screens. If you have some one with the know how its a worth while move.
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2014, 08:17:11 PM »
Quote from: Sam on October 28, 2014, 06:05:06 PM
Any rough sense of scale mate  :)?

8' × 4',with the digits for total and wickets being 12" and the rest, 8"
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Re: DIY electronic scoreboard
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2014, 08:20:09 PM »
Quote from: SOULMAN1012 on October 28, 2014, 08:00:14 PM
We upgraded our old score board last year to LED running off an iPad and it was £1500 and that was mainly the iPad and the actual LED screens. If you have some one with the know how its a worth while move.

That's the plan eventually, as we use TCS to score and there is an option to control external electronic scoreboards. Main goal right now, is to get the system up and running.
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