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Timing System Display on EBay
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:13 pm
by Dan Parrish
I'm in the process of mputting together a timing system and have been brainstorming how I want it to work when I came across this on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/GREAT-VORNE-DIGITAL ... dZViewItem
It is a 12 digit 4" display with a built in timer.
$90. +shipping.
I think it would be a bit too much to get it to work alone, but anyone currently using a PC for timing or spreadsheets may want to jump on these. (they're usually ~$900. He has 3.)
If anyone can figure out how to yse it with a Mac, I'd appreciate it....
Otherwise, take it as a skate public announcement. Snatch them up!
Watching the snow melt,
dP
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:47 pm
by Jani Soderhall
I think Marcus Seyffarth is your partner in this pursuit. That would be a really cool add-on to his software. He's already developing all the rest (like a PC connection for the Trackmate). I'd love one of those. It's definitely worth having a look at.
/Jani
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:08 am
by Vlad Popov
Cool. Thanks.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:53 am
by Dan Parrish
Looks like the DC races will soon have a a professional scoreboard.
Vlad, when you figure out the display, e-me. I'd love to see that be able to work alone or interface easily with my iBook. ( I could *probably* figure out a timing app under vbasic or filemaker - I began (and aborted) one a while ago. I'm afraid that it might need input from it's own PC program and I'm no programer.)
He has another one up now, and presumably, the last up a week from now.
I'm not greedy - and this is a great deal for those running races.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:25 am
by Wesley Tucker
Dan,
Do you have Filemaker 7? If you do let me know. I'll forward something to you.
Display interfacing
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:27 am
by Pat Chewning
Chronocone has a display interface (program) built in.
You can set the preamble characters to send to the display and then it displays the time and name of the racer.
Unfortunately, the display I got from EBAY is a bit small and not very bright for outdoors....
You can download Chronocone to your computer and see if you can get the display to work with it:
http://home.comcast.net/~pchewn/Chronoc ... ne2004.htm
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:42 am
by Wesley Tucker
Dan,
I got your e-mail. I responded with an attachment. I hope this won't blow up some sort of spam filter on your server.
Let me know if you get it. If not, I'll upload it to an FTP you can access.
Oh. It's a 198K .zip of two items. One of the two will expand to about 1.7MB.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:03 pm
by Vincent Berruchon
No time to check that now
But we are really interested by any big time display at good price!