I have a cool idea! SCOREBOARD! Someone care to help me?

atkafighter · Post by **atkafighter** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:31 pm

I have the idea of building a scoreboard for my wall. I want it to have a timer, score for two teams (players), and spots for wins (three on each. For fighting games.), and to connect controllers so that the points can be awarded using the controllers (for frags or something). I think this would be pretty funny on my wall. I would use it to keep track of Tekken tournaments, and other gaming events (if I ever actually use it).
Here is a 5 second paint picture of what I want to build.

I bet this is way over my head, but hopefully some of you electro-geniuses can help me out.
I want it to be really big.
Any ideas?

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:33 pm

Well instead of controllers have buttons don't have to but just an idea.

xriverfalconx · Post by **xriverfalconx** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:05 pm

Looks like you are trying to build a pokemon board there!!!

Mr. Cool · Post by **Mr. Cool** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:51 pm

ZING!

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:53 pm

Mr. Cool wrote:ZING!

Why?

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For building that kind of scoreboard you could probably use a PIC16F876 microcontroller. You could probably multiplex some LED displays to it, and you're set! Just hope you have enough I/O lines left for the buttons

atkafighter · Post by **atkafighter** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:56 pm

marshallh wrote:
Mr. Cool wrote:ZING!
Why?

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For building that kind of scoreboard you could probably use a PIC16F876 microcontroller. You could probably multiplex some LED displays to it, and you're set! Just hope you have enough I/O lines left for the buttons

Wow! You really know your stuff. Thanks, I will look into this.

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:11 pm

I found this link if it helps any

http://www.aaroncake.net/circuits/counter.htm

Mr. Cool · Post by **Mr. Cool** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:32 pm

marshallh wrote:
Mr. Cool wrote:ZING!
Why?

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For building that kind of scoreboard you could probably use a PIC16F876 microcontroller. You could probably multiplex some LED displays to it, and you're set! Just hope you have enough I/O lines left for the buttons

After watching 3 hours of pokemon with my little cousin, I found it ironic that someone would mention it. It really does look eerily similar

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:35 pm

When I was a kid, I just bought Poke cards to awe at the perty

illustrations, the game I didn't understand a rat's butt about.

Mr. Cool · Post by **Mr. Cool** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:57 pm

My mom wouldnt let me play with them because she said they were violent. Im not kidding. It was so stupid. I was like 9 too, not like 6.

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:21 pm

how big do you want to make the score board?

atkafighter · Post by **atkafighter** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:08 pm

shmagoogin77 wrote:how big do you want to make the score board?

Well I want the numbers to be visible from pretty far away, but I also need to be able to move it (when I have to leave campus during breaks) by car. So I guess it would be something like 1.5ft tall, 3ft long, and about 4 inches deep. I should be able to rig it up on top of my light fixture (piece of junk). Also, how would I make it award a point only when two, or more people press a button at the same time (confirmation purposes, that way nobody cheats HA).
Where would I get the LCD's for this? I would need some large ones similar to the ones found in alarm clocks (only bigger).

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:36 pm

or you could use a bunch of leds

Post by **gannon** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:41 pm

I'd say either use a PIC, or use a serial adder and a sipo register (or even just a parallel adder)
Odds are that the PIC would be the easiest way though.