WHITE LED BADGE (2)

White LED Badge (2), retail $15.00
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 01-28-08






The White LED Badge was purchased on Ebay, simply because I thought that it was cool (or "kool" or "kewl").

The White LED Badge seems remarkably easy to use at first, but looks can be deceiving. It should be comparable in ease to entering your initials after reaching a high score on a coin-op arcade video game like they had in the 1980s and 1990s - and probably the early-2000s too; though I have not played one of the coin-op arcade video games from this decade so I cannot confirm how high score monitoring is performed on modern equipment. But the buttons are so difficult to press, that its apparent ease soon turns into a painful lesson in patience.

It has 5 rows of 17 columns of small white LEDs (85 lamps total); these little LEDs are remarkably bright for chip-type LEDs with no lenses over them.

You can store up to six messages of 255 bytes each (characters, numerals, punctuation, symbols, and spaces) in this badge.


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This badge is so darn diddly-arn difficult to program that the best thing I can do is to refer you to the instructional materials printed on the back of the package.

Not only are the buttons hard to press, this badge requires a modicum of precision in button presses to change modes.
2-2=0 I guess.

Use the included magnet to affix the White LED Badge to a shirt, apron, jacket, or other fabric as you wish.
The magnet is surprisingly potent; please be careful when handling it ie. when affixing the badge to a shirt.

The badge can display uppercase letters A-Z, the numerals 0-9, most symbols & punctuation characters, and special characters like a heart and a smiley face.



To remove the batteries, use a ballpoint pen or similar instrument, and push the cell out from the magnet side of each battery carriage. Once it's out enough, grasp the cell at the edge of the badge and pull it straight out; dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

To insert the batteries into your badge, turn the unit upside-down so the circuitry faces up. Turn the unit so the magnet faces forward. Slide a CR2032 lithium coin cell into each carriage, (from the edge closest to each battery carriage) flat side (+) positive up.
There, that's it. No really, it is.

Unable to measure current usage due to how the unit was constructed and how it functions.



This is a digital scrolling badge, not a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown it in the toilet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let my housemate's citty kats go to the litterbox on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a large claw hammer in order to smash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannonada (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannonada is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

One of the first things I do when I test a programmable message thing is to see if there's an onboard censor, and this badge is so darn diddly-arn difficult to program that I did not do this.


Photograph of the badge affixed to a shirt, as it might normally be used.

Because this device has a fairly strong magnet, you should excersize exteme caution when you use the badge near a heart pacemaker if you have a pacemaker implanted in your chest.

This evaluation resemble the one I made for the Green LED Badge (2)?
Thought you'd say so. It's because I used it as a template for this one because (except for LED color) they're identical to one another.
And it's just as difficult to use as it too, so I left all the swears in.

This badge has four display modes:
  • Right-to-left scrolling (as you might expect)
  • Flicker of four letters
  • Up-to-down scrolling of four letters
  • Down-to-up scrolling of four letters
And it has space to input six messages of 255 bytes (letters, numbers, symbols, and spaces) each.

This badge is so darn diddly-arn difficult to program that if you purchase one, please be certain to purchase a gun and some bullets for it too so you can hose yourself down with it after being frustrated with dealing with the very difficult-to-press buttons.

This badge is supposed to have 85 LEDs, but one of the lamps was DOA, so this particular sample has 84 lamps.



I tried to take a photograph of the White LED Badge while a message was scrolling, but the scrolling speed was
fast enough and the camera's shutter speed was slow enough that the photograph did not come out well at all.

The front-end of the message below ("TIME FOR YOUR MEDS, ANGIE! :-)")
was being displayed when this photograph was taken.



Photograph showing that one of the LEDs is out.
Note the center LED in the upright part of the "E" is out.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in this badge.


WMP movie (.avi extension) showing the White LED Badge in action.
It reads "TIME FOR YOUR MEDS, ANGIE! :-)" in reference to my sister's medications.

This is ~3.05 megabytes (3,285,828 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than fifteen minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
I cannot provide it in other formats, so please do not ask.

That sound you might hear is an episode of Drake and Josh playing on the boob tube.
This product is not sound-sensitive; the sound may be ignored or muted if desired.



TEST NOTES:
Sample of the White LED Badge was purchased on Ebay on 01-23-08 and was received on 01-26-08.
I purchased it simply because I thought that it was cool (or "kool" or "kewl"), not because I actually needed it.

I see now that I made the incorrect decision (it's so darn diddly-arn difficult to use that I just want to throw it on the floor, pile some of those pink urinator deodouriser mints and some Arm & Hammer brand "Odour Alert" kitty cat litter on it, and {spoken like Beavis} THTOMP ON IT!!!).


Photograph of the badge being THTOMPED ON.
(No, I didn't actually destroy it - this is just a humorous photograph!)

I believe this product was made in China.
A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.


UPDATE: 00-00-00






PROS:
No onboard censor
LEDs are bright enough to see in room light - they're really bright, actually
Enough space to input large sized messages
Batteries it needs are a bit odd, but not unreasonably so. Should be easy to find



CONS:
Much more difficult to use than any other badge tested to date (except for this one)
No onboard censor


    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Magnetic scrolling LED badge
    LAMP TYPE: Small white LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 85
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Small rubber pushbutton on/off, character up/down
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: Plastic
    BATTERY: 2xCR2032 lithium coin cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER RESISTANT: Light sprinkle-resistance at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: No
    ACCESSORIES: 2xCR2032 cells, thin bar magnet
    WARRANTY: 30 days

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating





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