> Silkscreen? That looks like a protoboard. I'm unsure what U1 and U2 are > anyway, most of those supplies only use one IC (the 555). > > I was refering to the base board; not the prototype breadboard which has the > 555 timer on it..
Whoops, I misunderstood! > While at Frys today; I saw they had some Arduino usb devices for fairly > cheap. I ended up getting a Nano which had 14DIO pins – barely enough to > drive the display. > > A few hours later; I had a working Pinball Display tester: > http://youtu.be/kz3ikA82iH8 Nicely done! I get a lot of mileage out of these inexpensive microcontroller boards. A friend had asked me about them a few days ago, resulting in my posting a "family picture", which I'll share here as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23304890@N00/8572966925/in/set-72157626837690966/ > I’ll publish the code later; but thought you’d guys want to see the display > functional asap. > Tests all the digits and the BLANK functionality which is between the 9 and > the 0. Yeah, that's nifty, and it must be gratifying for you as well. I love when projects make progress. > Next step is to desolder the current display PCB and build a fully populated > display based on the latest PCBs. Once I have a fully populated display; I > can test all the digits and the 7digit emulation capability. I'm guessing you have the 0.156" connector pattern to match the connectors on the pinball machine (they do make nice use of standardization and modularity, making these mods ever so much easier). And naturally, you could put mating connectors on your tester and power supply to exercise your finished boards. I'm having trouble deciding which machine I'd want to put nixie displays in. I have a Xenon and a Raven, and neither of them seem right for it. I was planning on replacing the Xenon displays with blue LED displays to match its blue-heavy "futuristic" design (I've already relamped the blue bumpers and tube with LEDs, and they look great). And the Raven uses VFDs, so isn't really a candidate. Which means it's time for me to buy another pinball machine! Or use nixies for the conversion I'm slowly building (I got a knackered Sorceress and I'm trying to create an "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" game out of the carcass). - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
