I had a similar question a couple years ago. I found Stanislav Pechal's nixie project. There's no strict license, but so far it has been a share-a-like and give credit kind of thing. :) My (out of date, ugly code) version:
http://www.jacobstribe.org/files/6-digit-12hr.zip I spent a lot of time modifying this codebase for various features and display types, etc.. It uses the ATTiny2313, so it forces you to think small. :) Of course, Atmel makes it really easy to change microcontrollers, so the code would work without too many changes on a bigger chip.. but then you lose the challenge. ;) I've rewritten my own clock firmwares from scratch for various clocks now, but I definitely feel that having a starting point to work from was a help to _me_. It's not nearly as daunting to take an existing software and add GPS to it or whatever than to start from scratch. -Adam On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:59 AM, neutron spin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello All, > > I find this group to be one of the most interesting hobby > groups!....With the compliment out of the way, I have a question on > the various microcontroller firmware out there. I am looking for some > free (OK... I said it!) firmware to use in a new nixie clock project. > Atmel or Microchip microcontrollers would be the desired platform. I > have the ability to flash the hex code to the chips but my programming > skills are terrible at best. > > I understand that the folks that sell clocks or kits out there have to > protect their code. But I was looking for something open source or > whatever that I could experiment with to get me started. I have > collected several Russian nixies and would like to start a project. > Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. > > Regards > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
