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Good news, this project is not abandoned, just a bit on the side burner. I'm getting married in a month so more important things have taken it's place for the time being. But after I get back from the honeymoon, I will be full steam ahead again. I still have no luck in finding someone to make an enclosure though. Would still need assistance in that field. Thanks guys!

True, but they are less than a penny

The jumpers dont increase the size of the board due to there needing to be some sort of IC on the board, so this is still the cheapest solution. The 238's are 29cents without a bulk order.

There is adequate room for clips on the displays, but the next pass will have mounting holes. There has been adjustment on the Display PCBs so this was just the real prototype. The next pass will be more the final, but i'd like to have a Enclosure to base it around before I dispatch my order.

HCT238 they go for about 29cents a pop, as opposed to the MAX7219, i think they are well over a buck each?

Heh, that's why I am reaching out to the community, I'm not particularly good with that sort of thing.

I use mutiplexing, the controller can drive 64 7 Segment LED's as well as 6 Analog displays for literally a fraction of the price. The main goal of the entire project is to give the end user a great versatile product and keep it within a budget based price.

Hmm... I really like where you are going with this... In fact this is what I am going to do

Hello all! As many of you may know me as the person developing KSP Display I'm having a bit of trouble and am reaching out to anyone in the community with the expertise of physically creating an enclosure. As I am not sure which portion of the forum this best suits due to the fact that it really is a request as to anyone who can do enclosure fabrication, I decidedly chose the General forum. If there is a better suited sub-forum I apologize. For all of you who have no idea what I am talking about here is the latest video of what has been accomplished thus far... If anyone who knows of anyone who can create an enclosure or would like to take a stab at it, I would love to see what they are willing to create around such a device. Here are the following dimensions... The Display Boards are 103.81x41.91 mm, The actual 7 Segment LED's come off the base of that board are 8mm in depth and 25x19.05mm per 2 LED's (They are in packages of 2 so a board with 8 LEDs it's 25mm in width * 4), the Actual Control board is 76.45x76.45 mm. The individual 6 analog displays are 64x56mm and need 57mm of clearance in depth. The original post for this is Here Thank you so much! I hope someone can assist me in this area to get this product out to you guys as quickly as possible!

Information for taking a stab at the enclosure The Display Boards are 103.81x41.91 mm, The actual 7 Segment LED's come off the base of that board are 8mm in depth and 25x19.05mm per 2 LED's (They are in packages of 2 so a board with 8 LEDs it's 25mm in width * 4), the Actual Control board is 76.45x76.45 mm. The individual 6 analog displays are 64x56mm and need 57mm of clearance in depth.

**Update** 9/23/2013

I would love to see what the community comes up with.

Thanks guys but im seriously looking for someone, or anyone I can give detailed dimensions to. If they come up with some nice design I wouldn't mind sending them a prototype for fitting.

**Update** 9/5/2013 The mainboard PCB's came in and are assembled, here is what they look like all soldered up! The Main LED Display Boards went Out for Printing today, here are the Fab pic's! Changes I changed the 7 Segment LED's to all Bright Green LED's (Looks more Apolloish and better) I've created custom inlays for each of the 6 Analog Displays I'm Still looking for anyone in the community who can do Enclosure Fabrications - I Will send them a Prototype if they can help me out in this area! Once the Display Board's come in I will post a Video with a fully assembled KSP Display

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**Update** 8/20/2013 The PCB's went to print today! Here is one of the main boards! - The first print is still an early alpha - But here is what it has - 6 Analog Displays (Currently Electricity, Liquid Oxygen, Liquid Fuel, Mono Propellent, Solid Fuel & Atmospheric Density) 5 Digital LED Displays (Radar Altimeter, Current Velocity, Apoapsis (GREEN), Periapsis (GREEN), Current Altitude) 1 Master Alarm- Programmable Master alarm Condition Customizable Plugin Can change any display into another resource or LED Display into another reading Here is a look at the PCB Main Board that went to print - PCB - TOP PCB - BOTTOM -- I Do need help with an enclosure, If anyone is decent with Fabrication skills if I can see some of your work, maybe I can ship one out to you to develop an enclosure for it. We'd need to talk. Thanks! Later this week (Perhaps today if I can get around to it) I will upload another video with all the displays.

Yup both the 138's and 238's are chip of choice if you have at least 3 gpio to spare, if you have 6 you can bank switch to 64 locations in 2 cycles.

Not shifting 74HCT138's for Bank Switching They are Time division multiplexed, allows me to basically be freely expandable and with 2 cycles I get to the 7SegLED instead of bit shifting bytes along.

USB control, PWM and multiplexing, I only use one chip per 8 7 SegLED

Yes, an analog display.

Thanks, the positive feedback gives me more motivation to keep moving this forward. The main goal is it for it to become a completely purchasable item.

Well I have an idea for the NavBall, depending on the response I get it may motivate me to do a higher quality model with a NavBall, Next Friday I will post a video with 6 Analog Displays for all resource types.

Yes, I want to put it in an enclosure mimicking that of the AGC from the Apollo Missions.

KSP Display (Physical Display) **Update** 9/23/2013 The Display Boards are 103.81x41.91 mm, The actual 7 Segment LED's come off the base of that board are 8mm in depth and 25x19.05mm per 2 LED's (They are in packages of 2 so a board with 8 LEDs it's 25mm in width * 4), the Actual Control board is 76.45x76.45 mm. The individual 6 analog displays are 64x56mm and need 57mm of clearance in depth. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After lurking the forums for quite some time now, I've seen a number of posts of people who were looking to have a physical display (LED's, Analog Meters, etc...) for KSP. I thought it would be cool to put it all in a faux looking Apollo computer Enclosure. So without further ado I started the KSP Display. The Video explains it all but until you watch, here is just some statistics of it's hardware capabilities thus far. Up to 64 7 Segment LED Displays Up to 6 Analog Displays Programmable Master Computer Alarm With Silencer Switch Runs all off USB This is a very very very Early development of this, as I mention in the video the USB Drivers I created are only for Windows at the moment, but it's an extremely easy port to Mac & Linux. I'm putting this early dev out there because I want to see how much interest there is in the community if I should continue to invest time and money into developing it. The ultimate goal is to create a low cost Physical KSP Display device that anyone can have and use. Please respond with thoughts - additions - and other things you wish to see from KSP in a physical manner. And no, im sorry, im not going to Do the NavBall (Although I have a very good idea on how to), the cost of developing a physical NavBall is outside of the budget of the project. But please let me know if this is something the community is interested in, as well as obtaining! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Update** 9/5/2013 The mainboard PCB's came in and are assembled, here is what they look like all soldered up! The Main LED Display Boards went Out for Printing today, here are the Fab pic's! Changes I changed the 7 Segment LED's to all Bright Green LED's (Looks more Apolloish and better) I've created custom inlays for each of the 6 Analog Displays I'm Still looking for anyone in the community who can do Enclosure Fabrications - I Will send them a Prototype if they can help me out in this area! Once the Display Board's come in I will post a Video with a fully assembled KSP Display ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Update** 8/20/2013 The PCB's went to print today! Here is one of the main boards! - The first print is still an early alpha - But here is what it has - 6 Analog Displays (Currently Electricity, Liquid Oxygen, Liquid Fuel, Mono Propellent, Solid Fuel & Atmospheric Density) 5 Digital LED Displays (Radar Altimeter, Current Velocity, Apoapsis (GREEN), Periapsis (GREEN), Current Altitude) 1 Master Alarm- Programmable Master alarm Condition Customizable Plugin Can change any display into another resource or LED Display into another reading Here is a look at the PCB Main Board that went to print - PCB - TOP PCB - BOTTOM -- I Do need help with an enclosure, If anyone is decent with Fabrication skills if I can see some of your work, maybe I can ship one out to you to develop an enclosure for it. We'd need to talk. Thanks! Later this week (Perhaps today if I can get around to it) I will upload another video with all the displays.

Yup, ended up doing it this way, just feel so inefficient rolling a loop every update. And numerobis you need the if as a part can contain multiple resources, this singles out just electriccharge.