Hi, Very different spec from "battery powered toy badge". For a room sized display with permanent power available and a need for connectivity I'd look at some of the more serious hobby sites. Plenty of Arduino or Raspberry Pi interfaced displays giving you a choice of Ethernet/Wifi/ Bluetooth connectivity and a lot of different programming options.
Good search terms for these sites are "LED matrix" or simply "matrix". A couple to get you started. [1] https://www.tindie.com/search/?q=matrix [2] https://shop.pimoroni.com/?q=led+matrix Or a really cool project if probably not that useful for your use case. [3] https://hackaday.com/2020/10/04/an-led-cube-to-display-cpu-vitals/#more-434443 On Mon, Oct 26 at 08:59, Rob via Hampshire wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. > > I think I'm going to report to the powers that be that this is a bad idea. > What we're after (for work) is a sign which shows either something like "All > Systems Go" or lists the server(s) down. > > I guess we could "sacrifice" a display and leave it on 24/7/365 but a sign > would seem to be a better (greener) solution. Can anyone suggest any other > possibilities? -- Bob Dunlop -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
