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
> > 
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