Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Mahdi Al Husseini
Yes, it's certainly not the simple and straightforward venture I thought it would be! It has been quite humbling. I have some other neat projects I am working on too - a Geiger counter with a nixie display and a ham radio with a magic eye for tuning. Will be a few months before those two are up

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Bill Notfaded
We use embedded development tools where I work and they always have new plugins based around all the lastest USB IP (usually the latest next generation straight outta ACM and IEEE research). It's totally non trivial 4 sure! There's a LOT more to newer USB like USB type-C than I ever would have

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Mahdi Al Husseini
Hi there, Bill, I have before, yep. That's a beast of a roll. Tried and true technology. I have begun moving away from the use of ribbon cables because cross-talk has bitten me a couple of times. I have been learning to write my own USB drivers, though it's still very much a work in progress.

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Nicholas Stock
I’ll take a board too...:) Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 5, 2019, at 18:13, Charles MacDonald wrote: > >> On 2019-08-05 7:46 p.m., Bill Notfaded wrote: >> I too grew up with RPN and HP calculators in school! At first it made no >> sense to me but after using for years and becoming a CIS major

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 2019-08-05 7:46 p.m., Bill Notfaded wrote: I too grew up with RPN and HP calculators in school! At first it made no sense to me but after using for years and becoming a CIS major it makes perfect sense now because postfix works the way the machine does. I guess I was lucky, I had an

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread martin martin
Count me in On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 17:49 Jon Jackson wrote: > I would be interested in one of these boards. > > Jon J. > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 4:39 PM Mahdi Al Husseini > wrote: > >> Glad the response has been so positive! I will put a video up of the >> weather forecasting in action once

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Jon Jackson
I would be interested in one of these boards. Jon J. On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 4:39 PM Mahdi Al Husseini wrote: > Glad the response has been so positive! I will put a video up of the > weather forecasting in action once I receive my seventh tube in the mail > next week. > > I am out of gold

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Nicholas Stock
Cheap calculator is it?? :) Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 5, 2019, at 16:46, Bill Notfaded wrote: > > I too grew up with RPN and HP calculators in school! At first it made no > sense to me but after using for years and becoming a CIS major it makes > perfect sense now because postfix works

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Bill Notfaded
I too grew up with RPN and HP calculators in school! At first it made no sense to me but after using for years and becoming a CIS major it makes perfect sense now because postfix works the way the machine does. Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 7:39 PM, Mahdi Al Husseini wrote: > > I recently finished building an open source RPN calculator board to be used > with dalibors tubes, and an ancillary matrix keypad. I was always fond of the > old HP RPN handheld calculators, and wanted to do a Nixie tribute. I’ll >

Re: [neonixie-l] B7971 DUSTOFF IOT Board with IR Reciever

2019-08-05 Thread Mahdi Al Husseini
Glad the response has been so positive! I will put a video up of the weather forecasting in action once I receive my seventh tube in the mail next week. I am out of gold plated standoffs. I purchased them from Dalibor Farny, and had some extra. I will include regular ole brass standoffs for