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Kumar Appaiah

Jan 1, 1970
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I am a studentof Electronics Engineering, and I have to design a
counter as part of a basketball shot clock. However, I have not found
any information on the internet on how to go about making a counter
with a large display, which is to be fitted in a sports hall. Is such
a thing feasible? How do I go about designing the circuit?

Thank you.
Kumar
 
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Frank Bemelman

Jan 1, 1970
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Kumar Appaiah said:
I am a studentof Electronics Engineering, and I have to design a
counter as part of a basketball shot clock. However, I have not found
any information on the internet on how to go about making a counter
with a large display, which is to be fitted in a sports hall. Is such
a thing feasible? How do I go about designing the circuit?

No, it can't be done. It is impossible. The best I can
think of is this:
http://www.tomark.com/BasketballStore/detail.cfm?Product=306
 
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Ken Taylor

Jan 1, 1970
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John G said:
Nonsense.
Of course it is possible.
Almost every basketball court has one.

It is quite a job for a student. There is the countdown clock, the
controls, the display, etc etc.
But it is possible.

And already done all over the place.
Obviously you don't have the interactive display which drips the sarcasm
from posts......

Ken
 
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Dana Raymond

Jan 1, 1970
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Kumar Appaiah said:
I am a studentof Electronics Engineering, and I have to design a
counter as part of a basketball shot clock. However, I have not found
any information on the internet on how to go about making a counter
with a large display, which is to be fitted in a sports hall. Is such
a thing feasible? How do I go about designing the circuit?

Thank you.
Kumar

This is an especially difficult project considering the year of EE you are
in. The facts prove the point - an EE student isn't capable of even
beginning on a project assigned to him by his professor. I suspect that,
maybe (just maybe!) a student could do the project if he had actually
attended all of the classes and studied responsibility. Of course, we all
want electrical engineers running around our society who majored in beer and
boobs instead of calculus and circuits, right?

<drip, drip>
 
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Ken Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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I am a studentof Electronics Engineering, and I have to design a
counter as part of a basketball shot clock. However, I have not found
any information on the internet on how to go about making a counter
with a large display, which is to be fitted in a sports hall. Is such
a thing feasible? How do I go about designing the circuit?

Thank you.
Kumar

Its easy, just use a PIC.
 
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Kumar Appaiah

Jan 1, 1970
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Thank you very much for the detailed reply. Though your suggestions
are nice, we have not been introduced to the components you have
specified. We were planning to do it using ordinary counters (J-K flip
flops and the like) and amplifiers to amplify the output and send it
to the display. Do you think this is possible? If not, could you
please point us to resources where we could gain more information
about the components you have mentioned?

Thanking you,
Kumar
 
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Mark Zenier

Jan 1, 1970
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I am a studentof Electronics Engineering, and I have to design a
counter as part of a basketball shot clock. However, I have not found
any information on the internet on how to go about making a counter
with a large display, which is to be fitted in a sports hall. Is such
a thing feasible? How do I go about designing the circuit?

Go to http://www.eem.com, sign up and do a search for
"Displays, Electromagnetic".

That should get you the manufacturers of the large "flip panel" displays,
where display elements, painted a bright color on one side and black on
the other are flipped back and forth. They come in both 7 segment and
dot matrix forms.

Some old catalog pages for F-P Electronics show a 7 segment display
66 centimeters high. Is that big enough?

Mark Zenier [email protected] Washington State resident
 
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The Geek In You

Jan 1, 1970
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Go to http://www.eem.com, sign up and do a search for
"Displays, Electromagnetic".

That should get you the manufacturers of the large "flip panel" displays,
where display elements, painted a bright color on one side and black on
the other are flipped back and forth. They come in both 7 segment and
dot matrix forms.

Some old catalog pages for F-P Electronics show a 7 segment display
66 centimeters high. Is that big enough?

Mark Zenier [email protected] Washington State resident

To all you idiots who can do nothing but talk nonsense and not answer
the question, thats stupid.

And for you Kumar, you idiot , you dont deserve to be in IIT. You
deserve the sarcasm.

Now that I have touched all bases :-D The simplest design for a
Basketball counter is a LED display that is interfaced with a timer
circuit that uses a simple and ubiquitous IC555.

Go look it up buddy. Grab a manual for IC 555 by atmel and it shud
have that design. Its one of the most BASIC of all electronic designs.
U better memorize that.

Laters buds.

Take it easy. No sweat :-D
 
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John Fields

Jan 1, 1970
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To all you idiots who can do nothing but talk nonsense and not answer
the question, thats stupid.

And for you Kumar, you idiot , you dont deserve to be in IIT. You
deserve the sarcasm.

Now that I have touched all bases :-D The simplest design for a
Basketball counter is a LED display that is interfaced with a timer
circuit that uses a simple and ubiquitous IC555.

Go look it up buddy. Grab a manual for IC 555 by atmel and it shud
have that design. Its one of the most BASIC of all electronic designs.
U better memorize that.

Laters buds.
 
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