ARH

I have been asked to look into a project along the following lines, but my school and college electronics is only helping me get so far... I am looking to construct a sports scoreboard. I have found a decent source of large 7-segment displays and am quite happy making a simple control box (mostly based on logic gates) to allow chosen characters to be displayed. The tricky part comes when considering whether the score board and the controller could be a distance apart - maybe as much as 150 metres. Ideally this would involve some sort of remote transmitter/receiver, but if necessry a connecting cable can be laid. My question is 2-fold 1 - What is the simplest/easiest/cheapest method of communicating the input data to the scoreboard. Presumably some sort of serial link? 2 - Is this something a relative novice could undertake. If anyone can offer any advice or recommend any reading that might help me to make some decisions and ultimately acheive my aim, I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks Andy