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palcal

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Joined: 12/10/2011
Location: Australia
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Posted: 11:27am 22 Feb 2016
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It's not a wall plate it is actually a box from Jaycar I had lying around. It is powered from a 5v. plugpack or USB socket.
The code is basically Geoff's clock code with a couple of additions. It needs a bit of cleaning up I will release it when finished.
Paul.
"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"
 
TassyJim

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Joined: 07/08/2011
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Posted: 06:32pm 23 Feb 2016
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Paul,
I have released the first attempt at a font tweaking program

It includes a seven segment font with the 1,4 and 7 stretched a bit.

http://www.thebackshed.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8386&PN=1&TPN=1

It has a few rough edges but should do the job.

Jim
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mbramwel

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Joined: 10/07/2013
Location: Canada
Posts: 42
Posted: 06:35pm 25 Feb 2016
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Just a reminder for you linux guys out there, I wrote a small program that will convert common bdf fonts to maximite format.

If you can find a font out there that looks good, convert it and use it on your machine.

http://www.foxhollow.ca/maximite/?menu=fonts
 
mbramwel

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Posted: 06:52pm 25 Feb 2016
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Just to followup to my own reply... I did a google search for "led.bdf font" and found lots of very interesting True Type downloadable LED styled fonts.

download the True Type font.
Use the linux ttf2bdf converter to make a X11 bdf font.
then use my script to convert the bdf font to a maximite font.
 
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