I've never gotten into VFDs. Unlike Nixies they've been around all my life. There's one in the microwave oven sitting in our kitchen right now!
After the recent discussion about IN-23 prices it suddenly occurred to me to take a second look at the IV-4/IV-17. The idea of having a dozen or more of them in a row and watching text scroll by in Cyrillic, Roman, Klingon—whatever—is tantalizing. I took a look on eBay and...wow, they're still really cheap! There are lots of clocks etc. available but what I really want is that ticker-tape effect. I'm coming late to the party. What's available that fits the bill? I'm interested in something that's just the PC boards and software. I don't need a nice enclosure. I'd also like to be able to control it from something with a higher-level language than PIC or AVR assembler. The Arduino is an obvious choice but that's just one possibility. I'll also ask for the moon: something that doesn't require soldering any surface mount components. Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" https://www.astarcloseup.com/ “...the book said something astonishing, a very big thought. The stars, it said, were suns but very far away. The Sun was a star but close up.”—Carl Sagan, "The Backbone Of Night", Cosmos, 1980 -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/F895CB3F-1318-42BA-884F-07EAAF31D207%40gmail.com.
