Interesting discussion. Lots of interest in FLW clocks and derivatives. What interests me is using that database of word associations derived from psychological profiling, so that for example after the word "flee" the word "fear" shows up 80% of the time, with the word "foes" taking the remaining 20%. A random word would only be chosen when a word caused no associations, there are quite a few in the database. I suppose there were recorded at the end of a session. Nice touch Dr. Odell with a dirty word defeat switch. These show up quite a lot in the database. An interesting inverse position would be to only use dirty words :)
As to displays, I have some huge 8" high flipdot 5x7 matrix display that came from highway signs. I am prototyping a driver circuit, and I want something impressive for them to display. Sorry no glowing glass, but flipdots are pretty cool. Tom Harris <[email protected]> On 20 April 2015 at 11:23, koolatron <[email protected]> wrote: > Gastón, > > Sure thing. I will post here when I am happy with the firmware! > > The MCU is an atmega32u2 clocked at 16 MHz. It has a built-in USB > peripheral for communicating with a host computer. > > Sea > > > On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 5:09:23 PM UTC-7, GastonP wrote: >> >> Very nice... I have bought 10 IV-4's just for this kind of thing. >> If you decide to go open please share. >> >> BTW... which processor are you using? >> >> Gastón >> >> On Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 8:00:45 PM UTC-3, koolatron wrote: >>> >>> I actually designed and built a FLW clock out of IV-4/IV-17s; they’re >>> quite nice little tubes and currently still reasonably easy to get on the >>> e-site. >>> >>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/709108/iv4lw.JPG >>> >>> And here’s a short movie of an older version of the clock “walking the >>> tree” as was mentioned earlier in the thread: >>> >>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/709108/iv4lw2_wordwalk.mov >>> >>> Once I’ve finished up the software, I’ll open it up if there’s interest. >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 6:11:31 AM UTC-7, jrehwin wrote: >>>> >>>> As the B7971’s are so expensive these days, perhaps we should look for >>>> really large VFD’s. Or LED matrices. >>>> >>>> >>>> I scored some huge two-character VFDs from an elevator panel refit, >>>> along with several smaller 16-character ones that accept serial input at >>>> 600bps. >>>> >>>> The IV-4/IV-17 ones are a good size and still affordable. >>>> >>>> Noritake occasionally gives away some nice VFD doc matrix displays, too. >>>> >>>> One of the important points in using them, as you already noted is to >>>> look good, they need to have accurate spacing, so it sort of rules out >>>> individual LED’s - which are really cheap. >>>> >>>> >>>> You can build it up out of individual alphanumeric LED displays, which >>>> are available in a bunch of large sizes (like the Evil Mad Science 5 letter >>>> clock). >>>> >>>> I'm also working on an ongoing project to use an old monoscope tube as >>>> a character generator to display nicely formed characters on a small CRT. >>>> This could be the basis for a 4/5/6LW >>>> project, including some fun effects like stretching letters vertically >>>> or horizontally, and moving them around. I'm on about the sixth redesign >>>> (LT1172 switching regulator driving a CCFL >>>> inverter with a voltage doubler) of the monoscope power supply at this >>>> point. >>>> >>>> I like the idea of a scrolling clock or FLW – these days micros are not >>>> expensive. So it should not be too difficult to do a large scrolling clock >>>> then the issue of four, five, six , sever or more scrolling words is not an >>>> issue, especially if the matrices can be banked together. >>>> >>>> >>>> Some of the PJRC boards have PLENTY of memory and CPU horsepower, and >>>> they're small, cheap, and can be used with the Arduino toolset. >>>> >>>> - 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 email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9b3c5fdc-19c1-454f-8030-79c582cc9a90%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9b3c5fdc-19c1-454f-8030-79c582cc9a90%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAHjG12SuUsNPp8tSMv1arQEWOy%2B8dDqG5nMSOc7RNu5Wa-4qyw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
