2 Oct
2008
2 Oct
'08
3:04 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:43:05PM +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
John Honniball wrote:
Down for maintenance, unfortunately.
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-2711x…
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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Ethan Dicks, A-333-S Current South Pole Weather at 2-Oct-2008 at 21:50 Z
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