show your sliders timer please?! original or custom

I'll be following with interest. Are you doing original and Egyptian timers or just the Egyptian one? Don Colie's timers were really nice but as he sells/sold them, advice on how to make one's own was not forthcoming.

I looked at your youtube vid. Will you be doing the digits as a row of 6 or are planning to leave it at 5? I had trouble finding 7 segment displays that would fit 6 across in a Motorola phone and the RCA remote but found some common anode ones somewhere online. If I can work out where I'll let you know.

I only bought 10 of them as it was 6 for hrs:mins:secs, 3 for the days and I got a discount for buying 10. Now I wish I'd bought 3 times that many as I have at least 3 different timers I'd like to build.

I have the right Motorola phone to do an original timer and one that is pretty close so could do another. I got a couple of the correct RCA remotes to make the Egyptian timer. Plus I have the Mad Catz Sega game controller (3 button) to make the Rickman timer (plus one of the 6 button ones as a backup).

Where I'm let down is the electronics design part. If I could program microcontrollers I might have a chance.

Also looking for the pushbutton matrix used on the Egyptian and Rickman timers.
 
wow lucky find with all those cases. i didnt use an programmable chips. and bitsbox.co.uk has the right sized digits , if you go there under optoelectronics and look at the common cathode .3" digits those are the right ones. i am going to totally revamp this timer of mine and make all of them. it will have 6 digits, i went with what i had just to see how it'd look and work. as for the matrix keypad for the egyptian timer a friend gave it to me but if you email or better yet call a company called grayhill and tell them you'd like a sample of the matrix model 87 12 digit keypad they will happily send you a free sample. thats how he gets his. just tell them what your doing and they'll send it for free. im not sure if they have the one for the rickman timer but they mite. my friend also does faceplates so if you need anything feel free to get in touch with me.
 
Hi guys, i finally finish my static timer, it's time to slide, i really need to escape of this world, see you on an other earth ;)




 
thedarkotaku said:
wow lucky find with all those cases. i didnt use an programmable chips. and bitsbox.co.uk has the right sized digits , if you go there under optoelectronics and look at the common cathode .3" digits those are the right ones.
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Actually buying 0.3" 7 segment displays isn't that hard on ebay. There is a few sellers who have them but I'll have a look at the bitsbox website. Are you in the UK or in the USofA?

The thing about those ones on BitsBox site is that they are single digits and the ones used to make the original prop I believe were 2 digit units, one of which was cut down the middle to use as the left and right mnost digits. Of course single digit displays will work jutst as well and might be easier to find in this size but are not strictly correct.

as for the matrix keypad for the egyptian timer a friend gave it to me but if you email or better yet call a company called grayhill and tell them you'd like a sample of the matrix model 87 12 digit keypad they will happily send you a free sample. thats how he gets his. just tell them what your doing and they'll send it for free.
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I've looked at those Grayhill low profile keypads and wondered if they were the right ones or not. The Rickman timer just has an 8 button keypad (4 rows of 2 keys) which they don't make but I suspect the prop guy just cut down a 12 button one or put two 4 button ones together side by side. I live in Australia so I wonder how likely they are to send free sample here.

I've not looked closely enough at Logan's timer to see what it's like except that it is pretty ugly. It doesn't seem to have too many buttons and things on it. I haven't been able to find that particular One-For-All universal remote yet anyway.

I am thinking of making a custom one too in a handheld game case that looks quite good I think for a timer.

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im not sure if they have the one for the rickman timer but they mite. my friend also does faceplates so if you need anything feel free to get in touch with me.
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i know its been a while since i posted but here is a completed egyptian replica i made, minus a few things and it only has 5 digits but hey, least it functions and coutns down. i'll be posting a guide up soon with a detailed parts list and instructions on how to build the electronics very soon so stay tuned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJR4irIC2M
 
Good job. It's coming along nicely. I've started learning how to program PIC microcontrollers with the intention of eventually making lighting controllers for each of the timers I want to build. When it ever gets that far I'll be happy to give people the circuits and code but will not sell circuits boards, kits or completed controller boards. I'm really only doing it for me and I don't mind sharing if it looks good.

Maybe I'll start with a full circuit but just some basic functions in the code and keep updating the code to get more things working and more realistically. Little steps. Then people only need to reprogram the PIC to add the new functions.

For my first MCU project I started with a 2 digit ammo counter similar to one on an Aliens Pulse Rifle and it's worked out pretty well. I just have to add support for pulsing a 30mW laser module and shoehorn it into a small pistol I'm making along with some other circuitry and a battery. It counts down with a button/trigger press from 99 to 00 and then stops (no ammo). It also counts 10 shots per second when held for 2 seconds. It will do that for both up and down but I have no use for the up count in this project (well not yet).

I'm not sure exactly why some things work the way they do in the code but they work. Hopefully I'll have an epiphany or at least not a stroke.

Next might be a dice project for my housemate but it's a pretty schmicky dice he wants built and I'm not sure how it's going to end up or how big or if I can pull it off..



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i know its been a while since i posted but here is a completed egyptian replica i made, minus a few things and it only has 5 digits but hey, least it functions and coutns down. i'll be posting a guide up soon with a detailed parts list and instructions on how to build the electronics very soon so stay tuned. YouTube - egyptian timer replica
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everyone might be interested ive compiled a guide on how i build my timer circuits and im posting the link right here, feel free to share it around as its not hard to do and it involves no programming.

happy new year sliders, today , january first of 2011 at 11:40 am eastern standard i am now giving to you as a gift my completed guide on how i make my timer circuits, no programming needed, and its not expensive. so without further bla blabla from me, here is the guide:
http://www.timerslide.com

all in all the parts needed shouldnt cost any more than 30 to 50 bucks. if anyone is confused, email me at timerslide@timerslide.com
 
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On one hand, I narrowly avoided getting a Trojan from the site you linked. On the other hand, you've just made it possible for me to finally get the prop that led me to this forum in the first place. I have a friend that could probably follow these instructions and rig the thing up in a day. Thanks so much!
 
your all welcome, thanks for the kind words. trojan eh? ibeen usin that site for about year now thats odd... thanks for letin me know. it might interest you toknow it took me 6 monthsto perfectthislol. please be sure to post your results im anxious to see
 
Well, thank you very much for the instructions. With all the people interested in getting themselves a Timer replica, the hardest part of it was always the electronic part. A very few people managed to do it; A lot tried, but that led nowhere. Too bad we didn't gather in this common effort because that would have solved the problem for good by now.

So, thanks for sharing ! :)
 
has anyone built the circuit yet? im curious as to everyone elses results or even improvements. im going to be releasing an updated version of this guide here soon and will link to it when its finished. this one will have an updated bargraph circuit for the original, egyptian, and rickman timers. progress on the bargraph circuit for the original timer can be found on my youtube along with a link for instructions on what is used and how to hook it up (so far).

youtube.com/timerslide
 
I've been working on my Rickmann's timer, using Darkotaku's instructions on his sliders site, check my album to see the progress so far, the case is mostly finished with the modifications, need to cut a faceplate, and get the last few parts in the mail, prototype board, capacitor, and buttons, then build my custom emitter on the top.
Tell me what you think.
 
here is the second revision of my guide, updates include the circuits for the original timers bargraphs and blinking leds. enjoy

edit: i found mistakes in the original timers bargraph circuits so heres the fixed version:
http://www.timerslide.com

also, on my youtube.com/timerslide account theres videos of these circuits working :D
 
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