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I finished the sign. Here are some pics. Thanks to all, I went the switch route for now. I'm probably going to build the BCD encoder switch to 7 Seg decoder in the future for ease of changing the sign. I hope the images turn out okay. The project was a lot of fun but time consuming. There are a lot ...

First of all, thanks a million to all who have posted remarks and suggestions. To Robert Reed: This layout covers 1700 square feet. There are 22 trains and 150 moving figures and vehicles (animations). It got its roots in 1945 with one train going around a Christmas tree. My father opened the busine...

Thanks for getting back to me and asking the questions. I am a tinker, not an electronics expert. I can follow a schemetic. I'm not a programmer but I know my way around a computer, somewhat. I guess the easiet method would be to use a whole bunch of switches, seven for each digit and make a matrix ...

Greetings, I want to put a gas price sign at a miniature gas station on a model railroad using LED displays. I can build the sign with no problem. I am going to make it show three different prices for gas, regular, premium and diesel, and I want to be able to change the prices as gas goes up and dow...