iBall 3D LED Displays

Features Display individual images, animations or text A PC is only required for editing the display Scheduler for queuing display at pre-determined times. Remote upload via modem. Fully Networkable. Desk or ceiling mounted.

How it Works
The iBall+ works by persistence of vision and has a spinning LED
vein ,giving an animation rate of 40 frames per second &
62,000 virtual pixels allowing text, graphics and animations to be
displayed.

Applications
Shops, Banks, Hotels, Restaurants, Chemists, Nightclubs, Airline,
Supermarkets, Promotional & Advertising Agencies, Home Users.

A very effective approach to point of sale advertising.

New
text, images and animations can be easily loaded into iBall, using
 ‘Spatial Display
Editor’ software.

Spacial Display Editor – Main
window

Connecting
to iBall

‘Spacial
Display Editor’ software can connect to iBall by direct
connection to PC com. port, by modem or by TCP / 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.

The
diagram below shows the three ways of connecting Device(s)
directly to the PC.

Device Networking Diagram

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,
images and animations, remotely. See picture below.

Modem Upload Diagram

TCP/IP
Using an ethernet to RS232 converter such as the Moxa
Nport Express,Devices may be controlled via the internet. You
will need an Internet 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 outlines TCP / IP operation.