Looking for a LED scrolling ticker I can give my son. There's products out there that do sports, weather, and stocks. I'd like to have that plus the ability to personalize with chores, what color jersey to wear, his schedule, etc….

Anyone aware of such product?

Thanks,

You mean like a big store size one? The "OPEN/CLOSED" kind. Or more like desk clock size? I know they can get pricey for the big ones.

You can just search programmable LED Strip. Here's a bigger one. Scale as needed. Nvm. I am positive you aren't looking for one of those.

Well I got interested in one as well but couldn't find the desk top stand kind I used to have years ago. Guess they aren't cool anymore for smaller size ones. Bunch of the flexible ones though which I have used before in school with great results. Size as needed. These are built for sticking to windows with font towards window but not necessary though. Need an app though to control I think. Might be what you are looking for perhaps?

https://www.amazon.com/Scrolling-Advertising-Bluetooth-Animation-Programmable/dp/B0B1TGKTGS

Looking for something customizable like you posted, but also automatic like this one.

https://www.glance-led.com/

I'd like to have scores and weather automatic, with ability to include chores, kids game schedule, uniform, etc…

Quito said:

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Looking for something customizable like you posted, but also automatic like this one.

https://www.glance-led.com/

I'd like to have scores and weather automatic, with ability to include chores, kids game schedule, uniform, etc…

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Gotcha. I saw your post after my above edit. Hmmm. I'll look around some in a bit. I am curious myself now. I've built my own like the one you linked but I feel like there HAS to be a blank slate one for someonw wwho doesn't want to do that for sale somewhere...

Following. My daughter would love this.

I think middle and high school kids would love the automatic features like weather, stocks, scores, etc…

Parents would love to put personal pass on there like chores, uniforms, daily/weekly schedule.

For the Glance, it does mention that "Custom Messaging" is possible, with exactly zero information of what that means when I dug a little more. Found another product called a TydByt that looked more app based but also may be a dead start up product. Gave up after that.

I don't know. It's a weird product space I think it's where most every day non-hobbyist uses are very niche and already addressed like stock and sports tickers by products with hardcoded closed source circuit boards. Everything else is going to be hobbyist oriented DIY which of course is VERY open source but comes at the cost of, ya know, doing it yourself.

If yall have any sort of computer inclination whatsoever though, or your kids do, building your own is not that bad honestly. Even fun for a lot of people and can be a great intro project for kids to get into electronics. If you want the easiest plug and play route I can vouch for, I've used this before.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2277

with

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5778

to control it. They are out of stock now though. And you'll need a USB-C charger. Any generic one will do.

Adafruit has all sorts of guides and example code to get started and there is a plethora of LED code for this style already done floating around the interwebs and Youtube. May just need to tweak it a bit. I guess some basic understanding of Python will be needed for this part in the end.

Just an option.

Forget all the above. Forgot the number one rule of niche products. Can't find it? Consult Etsy. Found several of them there. This one looks decent with great reviews. Just for an idea. Has four zones you can customize independently via web app.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1599002773/led-ticker-o-handmade-smart-display-with?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=led+ticker&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&frs=1&content_source=fd75f4f9b462f6759b8372d9524dcc8ed3d5b306%253A1599002773&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1


Not sure if it cycles through displays automatically but you can just message them and ask.

Well that's going on my Christmas list

Eliminatus said:

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Forget all the above. Forgot the number one rule of niche products. Can't find it? Consult Etsy. Found several of them there. This one looks decent with great reviews. Just for an idea. Has four zones you can customize independently via web app.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1599002773/led-ticker-o-handmade-smart-display-with?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=led+ticker&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&frs=1&content_source=fd75f4f9b462f6759b8372d9524dcc8ed3d5b306%253A1599002773&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1


Not sure if it cycles through displays automatically but you can just message them and ask.

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You da man!

Sure thing!

And Looked into it a bit more. That post I had above with the DIY approach? The Etsy product is exactly that. An LED matrix with ESP32-3 microcontroller w/ WiFi. Someone commercialized it. Just wrapped it in a case, did a pro software job on it and made an app for everyone to access it. kudos to them. That's why I love Etsy.

Does it rotate through sports, weather, personal calendar, and any other messages from Mom/Dad automatically?

I ordered one and can report back.

The LED ticker above is outstanding. My boy loves it and the other boy wants one as well.

Only issue and I've emailed back and forth is that A&M doesn't have a logo like literally every other school…even Abilene Christian. The contact said he would look into it, but the & sign could be the issue in the programming.

I want one to put in my back window that says "Left Lane is for passing, dumb ****"