Martin you always come up with some cool stuff brother! I know you're a fan of nixie counters too... me too! I like to keep them in their original form not year them apart for the tubes. Nothing like a still working nixie frequency counter right!
Bill On Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 5:18:00 PM UTC-7 Toby Thain wrote: > On 2022-03-19 7:27 p.m., 'John Rehwinkel' via neonixie-l wrote: > > > >> > >> Beautiful! What are you using to generate this image? > > > > I'm using an AdaFruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express with its two analog outputs > > to drive the X and Y inputs. The text is being generated using the old > > Hershey vector font. > > > >> I dont see a connection to the Z-axis (or did you use connections from > >> the back-side of the case ?) so I'm surprised to see such a crisp text > >> display. I was planning to turn my USM-117 into a scope-clock, but I > >> found a decent kit online last year. Even though I have an HP digital > >> scope, I still like bringing out this oldie for every now and then for > >> bench work. > > > > For visible segments, I draw slowly, for others, I move quickly, so > > I'm not using the Z input. > > Ah nice, I am working on an X/Y/Z driver that could be used for CRT > clock purposes. Rather than direct X/Y drive, it uses integrators for > analog lines. > > Some of the specs are here: > > > https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/vector-terminal/issues/4#issuecomment-1065940052 > > > > And some pics from yesterday: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/qu1j0t3/albums/72177720297457916 > > It does text, but this isn't shown here. > > If anyone is interested in a PCB, contact me privately I guess! > > --Toby > > > > > > - 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] > > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > To view this discussion on the web, visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/62B512C8-2B0F-42F2-B272-D16466FBFBE9%40mac.com > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/62B512C8-2B0F-42F2-B272-D16466FBFBE9%40mac.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > -- 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/bd201893-03d5-4c0d-9e6e-9cb1b8c6e2aen%40googlegroups.com.
