Color VFD Clock

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

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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

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

We like VFD!

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

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

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

👍

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

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

How much this display??

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natalie wrote 03/15/2019 at 01:10

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

woah :O

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