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Color VFD Clock

Clock designed around the Noritake itron GU20X8-301 color VFD module

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This project was created on 03/13/2019 and last updated 7 years ago.

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Placeholder project page. Currently, I am testing using an Arduino Mega board to interface with the VFD, and an ESP8266 to control it.

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    natalie • 03/17/2019 at 20:21 • 0 comments

    For an example of interfacing with this VFD, take a look at my other project: a port of Bad Apple!! to this display.

    https://hackaday.io/project/164433-bad-apple-color-vfd-ver

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    natalie • 03/13/2019 at 21:19 • 0 comments

    Here's a video showing some clock code I threw together a little while ago.

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b19eed wrote 05/20/2021 at 19:50 • point

did you do any more with this? I just purchased one off eBay, never used arduino before, but l have also ordered one of those... I have a lot of learning to do and could do with any assistance available ;)

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Vincent wrote 03/16/2019 at 21:41 • point

We like VFD!

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Ken Yap wrote 03/16/2019 at 01:20 • point

Nice! Always liked the glow of VFDs. Looking forward to seeing links to the driving software. Does that panel generate all the voltages required, as opposed to say this one? https://www.ebay.com/itm/128-32-VFD-Screen-Panel-SCM-Vacuum-Fluorescent-Display-Graphical-Dot-Matrix-Chip/273083073717

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natalie wrote 03/17/2019 at 02:24 • point

Yes, just give it 5 volts (at several hundred mA...) and hook up the control lines - it uses an oldschool parallel bus. Not my repo but there is interface info here: https://github.com/cawapy/GU20X8/blob/master/gu20x8.md

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Ken Yap wrote 03/17/2019 at 02:53 • point

👍

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Dan Maloney wrote 03/15/2019 at 16:21 • point

I always liked the two-color VFDs. Looks like you could make a decent game of Space Invaders on that.

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namshang wrote 03/14/2019 at 18:39 • point

How much this display??

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natalie wrote 03/15/2019 at 01:10 • point

stock varies, but you can pick them up for about $20 on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/20x8-VFD-Screen-Panel-3-Color-Graphical-Lattice-SCM-Vacuum-Fluorescent-Display/273373691704

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davedarko wrote 03/14/2019 at 08:53 • point

woah :O 

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