Re: [neonixie-l] A use for all those Itron displays I've got in the garage

2014-07-25 Thread petehand
Grahame, Your comment nagged at me, so I did include Huffman compression and got nearly 100k of text down to 48k. I wrote a program to take a text file and output it a line at a time to a file I can directly include in my AVR code, along with the Huffman tree and a symbol table for looking up

Re: [neonixie-l] A use for all those Itron displays I've got in the garage

2014-07-07 Thread petehand
Grahame, Thank you for the idea. I looked at the proverb list on your site, but in the end I used a combination of several other lists that includes quotations. I have other kinds of list I've been putting together, including bible verses and latin epithets, but regrettably I have only one

Re: [neonixie-l] A use for all those Itron displays I've got in the garage

2014-07-07 Thread Dylan Distasio
Thank you both for the very creative ideas. I'm hoping to find some inspiration in them as a staring point in one of my own projects (when I finally get around to actually building something from scratch again). I'm still a beginner and have really only hand crafted a single digit numitron clock

Re: [neonixie-l] A use for all those Itron displays I've got in the garage

2014-07-06 Thread Grahame Marsh
Pete, I'm glad you found the ideas useful. I have a much larger proverb list which I chose from for my proverb generator when I became short of flash. I can let you (or anyone else) have it to play with. It includes a lot of other sayings, almost duplicates and the Way of Mrs Cosmopolite

Re: [neonixie-l] A use for all those Itron displays I've got in the garage

2014-06-25 Thread Dylan Distasio
Very nice! Any chance of a kit? On Jun 24, 2014 5:18 AM, petehand peteh...@gmail.com wrote: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PS9IlBAtXJ4/U6lB_VHaIFI/AK0/DbcReEmHYo8/s1600/P1010711.jpg

Re: [neonixie-l] A use for all those Itron displays I've got in the garage

2014-06-25 Thread petehand
In principle yes, but it's difficult to put together a kit for a surface mount project. For one thing, I can't program the QFP processor chip until it's soldered into the board. I can do you an assembled board if you like. On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 3:51:02 AM UTC-7, William Lee wrote: Very

Re: [neonixie-l] A use for all those Itron displays I've got in the garage

2014-06-25 Thread Arne Rossius
Hi, petehand wrote: I can't program the QFP processor chip until it's soldered into the board. If you really want to do that for a small number of kits, I found that it can be done by just putting the chip on top of the footprint on the PCB (otherwise empty, except for the programmer