LED displays (TIL305, TIL308, etc.)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:43:05PM +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> John Honniball wrote:
> > I got the filter material
> >from Maplin's, who are still in business, but I don't think they still
> >sell it.
> 
> They stopped selling it ages ago, but Farnell still stock it: 
> http://uk.farnell.com/178186/optoelectronics/product.us0?sku=visualux-2711xg1-5&_requestid=365374

Down for maintenance, unfortunately.
 
> A bit on the expensive side for what it is, but it does the job. I've been 
> using it with HP HDSP-2112 (green) 5x7 LED displays.

I have a few of those at home I got from a friend who worked at a place that
made avionics displays (when they cleared out buckets of old components).
I've never tried to talk to them, but I have the datasheet here.  They look
interesting, but slightly complicated to talk to at the register level
(physical interfacing seems easy enough).

One idea I had for them was the date portion of a multi-time-zone clock
(we have several on the walls here out of necessity, and a desktop-sized
on seemed to be a good target).  What have you been using yours for?

-ethan

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