Count me in!  I have one other scope clock, but it's not too accurate.
Will look good next to the many Nixie and Numitron clocks..



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On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 7:11 PM Audrey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow that's amazing! Excellent work.
>
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2021, 10:00 PM David Forbes <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Finally! I have found a way to make Scope Clocks again.
>> I first made them in 2001, using a plastic case fabricated locally. I
>> redesigned the case several years ago using living hinges, and made a
>> couple prototypes on the laser cutter at the local hackerspace,
>> Xerocraft. This didn't seem to be a sustainable production method, as
>> their laser cutter is in high demand. So I started building my own
>> laser cutter in 2019, then I had to build a workshop to house it, then
>> the pandemic...
>> The circuit board uses a custom power supply transformer to make the 5
>> voltages needed form a 12V wall wart. The CRT is a 3RP1-A with a real
>> socket. The computer is a Teensy 3.6, which has the horsepower and two
>> DACs to allow circle and line generation in firmware. The code will be
>> open source. I have already started to write a Pong game for it. Four
>> letter words and haikus are on the horizon.
>> The case may be cut in either acrylic or Baltic birch. I also will
>> provide the enclosure source as an OpenSCAD file. (It's an amazing
>> program!) I still need to optimize the living hinges for acrylic, as
>> they are a bit delicate.
>> Stay tuned for more information.
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