Richard, That is really swell!
On Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 12:53:24 AM UTC-4 Richard Scales wrote: > This might be considered overkill but I have completed a clock which uses > the B-7971 Smart Socket design to control six SP-252 displays giving 12 > digits on which time is displayed along with date, temp, pressure and 10 > different scrolling text messages (each of 70 characters in length). > > The clock consists of a backplane, the smart socket boards (twelve of > them, two per display) and display holding boards. > > The software now has a web gui which provides access to all the settings > as well as the user definable text messages. Many thanks to Paul Andrews > for helping with this. > > An optional PIR device will wake the displays from sleeping whenever it is > activated and the whole thing is held together within my regular (one trick > pony!) acrylic case design. > > Although it is not clear in the pictures, there are two individual smart > socket PCBs per display, one on top and one underneath. After the initial > test build I elected to have the smart socket PCBs pre-fabbed, they are > double sided and each one has 30 x 0603 resistors and 15 x MMBTA42 > transistors. > > [image: RNpic.jpg] > > > [image: SP-252Pic1.jpg][image: SP-252Pic2.jpg] > > Why have just one micro in a clock when you can have 13! > > - Richard > -- 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/117dbbb9-3d27-43af-a272-3eab97add801n%40googlegroups.com.
