I recently bought 2 LCD from jckrers ebay store. I have a good idea for this stuff, but first I need to run several tests. This LCD are fine and use the common KS108 controller.
My first thought was to use the avrlib, so I wired the LCD and started to use avrlib, but I quickly […]
admin March 24th, 2008
Ok, everybody know I’m a clock builder right now ;) .. So beside I have a lot of stuffs to do, I decided to build a new clock.
A good friend, give a old Mullard DH7-11 tube, so it’s time to give it a try no ? ;) The main issue right now, is to find […]
admin February 3rd, 2007
I’m now building another clock with a IVL1-7/5. In fact, I’m preparing a large bench of VFD clock, and I need to test several stuffs, so the schematic isn’t public right now.
This one use quite the same stuff than my previous I IV-18 clock, the main difference is the VFD power supply, but if you […]
admin January 6th, 2007
Here a little video of my clock. In fact, I decided to replace the video on dailymotion ( it offers better quality than youtube)
admin October 10th, 2006
In the previous article, I have study the way to power this large VFD, now we gonna take a look closer at the logic itself. We need to drive a lot of bits (8+9) at ~40v. After a little googling, I discover that Allegro still sell some VFD drivers, but they are really hard to […]
admin October 9th, 2006
Hello HackADay / MakeBlog / HackedGadget users, be sure to read the second post,
as most pictures are here.
/ Enjoy
After my nixie clock, I decided to build a new one based on a old VFD vacuum tube. In fact, the brother of a friend (which live in Ukrainia) give me a bag of tubes. Beside I […]
admin October 9th, 2006
I decided to build a nixie clock, a long time ago. I finished this stuff, and I decided to write some articles on the way to achieve this.
So this is the first of a short serie of article, on my nixie clock. Beside I want people to be able to reproduce this for the own […]
admin June 1st, 2006
Ok, I’ve been off for a while right now. In fact, I’m playing with electronic’s stuff a lot. I just decided to build a nixie clock (for the fun).
For those wondering what is a nixie. Take a look at Wikipedia
And a nixie clock look like this:
There is a couple of hard stuffs to fix for […]
admin November 8th, 2005