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Thursday Jul 01, 2010
VFD Clock
I decided I needed a clock in my living room, and remembered I had this Matrix Orbital VFD2041 vacuum fluorescent display in my junk box, so I whipped up a few lines of C code to make it show the current time. The VFD connects to my home theater PC via its RS-232 interface and a USB RS-232 dongle.
Here's the source:
Tags: clock hack
Posted at 07:47PM Jul 01, 2010
by simmons in General |
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