Coder’s Eye

With the resurgence of interest in hobby electronics, I thought my readers might enjoy looking at the details of a simple project I did with cheap EBay-acquired parts. This was a fairly straightforward scrolling LED ascii display.
Goal
A simple-to-use Simstick display, capable of showing a reasonable subset of ASCII, utilizing cheap 15seg displays.
15 Seg Display
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I offer the code for my Invisible Castle site under a GPL license. However, it is not the easiest code in the world to get running. Plus, it is really overkill for most people. Most people who ask for the code really just want a die-roller with database lookup for their site.

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I read some research lately which seems to show that keywords matter to search engines in your site’s “title” tag. Not only that, but position matters. Preferably your page title should precede your site title.Unfortunately Wordpress is coded to make that sort of ugly.

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fvlogger.js is a fine logging system for Javascript, but when you are already using Prototype.js, it unnecessarily duplicates a lot of functionality. I’ve forked the original code to “fvlogger 1.0.proto”, removing this duplication.

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I just rolled my first real AJAX application out to a to testing.

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I upgraded the site to Wordpress 2 this morning. This wouldn’t be a bit deal, since the dev team has made it so easy to upgrade.

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