Article: 144 LED Games Console Project

[Art]

Certainly will, I just want to make sure I’m done, and then there’s only one version.
It also still does have a lot of non-working game code left in it.
I do think it would be an improvement to expand day of week & months to whole words.

[Demon]

Art, I have a suggestion.

Although the jumping text is aesthetically pleasing and a challenge logic-wise, it it difficult to read. Have you tried jumping the entire character together? It might be easier to read bouncing characters, maybe even bounce complete words?

Robert

[Art]

Yes, it does all three.. just don’t know if I caught it all in the video.
Fast, slow, slow bouncing, slow sine.
All artefact of the original text message scroller.
With the games removed there are 3 buttons/switches spare when not in time set mode,
so it’s not difficult to select scroll styles as modes. I have already used one for speed.

Art, I have a suggestion.

Although the jumping text is aesthetically pleasing and a challenge logic-wise, it it difficult to read. Have you tried jumping the entire character together? It might be easier to read bouncing characters, maybe even bounce complete words?

Robert

[Art]

Lol.. I already gave that one thought when watching the video
Not yet done that, but I agree.
There’s only room for 3.5 digits if they are static but still doable.

H:00, M:00, S:00, C:00, D:00, etc. should fit.

[Demon]

Another suggestion; display what is being adjusted while setting date/time: YY, MM, DD, hh, mm, ss.

This way users always know what they are setting.

Robert