LED Message Ball With 360-degree Display

360 degree LED display. Display individual images, animations or text. Giving an animation rate of 40 frames per second& 62,000 virual pixels allowing text, graphics and animations to be displayed. Size - diameter:280mm, height:380mm weight - 4 KG animation rate - 40 frames/second display resolution - 73 pixels by up to 850 pixelss round(62000 virtual pixels) display colour depth - 3 bits per pixel giving 7 colours and black per pixel(red, green, blue, turquoise, mauve, yellow, black) memory - 64mb onboard memory
Connecting to iball: Spacial display editor software can connect to iball by direct connection to PC com. Port, by modem or bytcp/IP network
Point to point: Suitable connection of one device to a PC. Half duplex communications capability
Daisy chain: Many devices may be chained up. Half duplex communications capability, but only to the first device in the chain.
Hub: Using a gdi/spacewriter rs232 hub, many devices may be connected. Each with half duplex communications.
Modem: If you attach a modem to iball, you can use spacial display editor to phone up the modem from the PC and upload new text, imagesand animations, remotely. See picture below.
Tcp/IP: Using an ethernet to rs232 converter such as the moxa nport express, devices may be controlled via the internet. You will need aninternet service provider(isp) and a fixed IP address for each converter. Each converter installs as a com. Port. 'spacial display editor' can support up to 256 com. Ports. The diagram below outlinestcp/ipoperation.
Scheduler: The iball contains a real time clock and a scheduler. The scheduler can be programmed display text, images and animations at pre-determined times. The scheduler can hold up to 65535 events.