TickerTape Retro Display

A project in London, UK by Darren
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A retro looking LED display, that is easy to connect to Arduino, ESP32, and RaspberryPi. With full library support for those platforms.
Backers: 189
Average Pledge Per Backer: £30

Funded: £5,656 of £2,200
Dates: Jan 3rd -> Feb 8th (37 days)
Project By: Darren
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Latest News

Final day, we didn’t it!

February 8th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

For those curious about the board dimensions

January 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Board Dimensions Here are the board dimensions in mm. Trying my best to use the ruler tool in eagle - but I used an actual ruler just to correct a couple of measurements that might be useful for 3d Printing. Board Dimensions  (Read More)

Display Library, Examples and CAD file.

January 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Just a quick update Code I have uploaded some Library code to GitHub - it's an Arduino Library that you need to add to your Arduino Library folder in the usual ways. This library is also dependent on other libraries being installed too, so check the... (Read More)

Project Ideas, shipping woes

January 18th - via: kickstarter.com
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A quick video demo of the latest firmware.

January 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Just a quick update to show the latest firmware. The display can connect to the web and get the time from some public time servers. I am also showing the touch capability of the ESP32. In this demo, I am also connecting to the YouTube API to get the... (Read More)

TickerTape Reached its goal!

January 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you - Funding goal reached! I cant believe we reached the target in less than two weeks. Thanks to everyone that pledged - and sent me messages, advice, and asked questions. I guess now the real work begins! Progress I have been updating the... (Read More)

TickerTape is 3/4 of the way there!

January 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Good news everyone! We are three quarters of the way to our funding goal!! I couldn't have done this without you - so thank you very much! But we still have some way to go to get across the finish line! So please send out a tweet, or share a post on... (Read More)

Thanks to my backers

January 5th - via: kickstarter.com
What a great start! The project is getting off to a great start - we had 25% of the goal in the first day. And have now hit one third of the goal! If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask! Darren  (Read More)

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