Nick PooleJun 7, 2023
Vacuum tubes are gay now
Show threadShae Erisson
@North Is this a real thing I can buy? I want to put this on my desk!
Jun 7, 2023 at 5:25pmWeb
Show threadNick PooleJun 7, 2023
@shapr I wish it was! Maybe I'll be able to build them one day?
Show threadShae ErissonJun 7, 2023

@North Closest thing I've seen is the RGB IGG-64 tubes like https://hackaday.io/project/46302-1-64x64m-adventure but they're a pain to drive at 360 volts.

(they come in monochrome orange, two color, and three color)

ИГГ1-64x64M Adventure

These display panels were lying around for quite some time now, waiting for an hypothetical interest. I decided to gave them a bit more focus after the interest shown on the dittohead's page : https://hackaday.io/page/3002-giant-nixie-panel-from-ussr [https://hackaday.io/page/3002-giant-nixie-panel-from-ussr] The challenge here is in several parts. - Finding documentations and translate them. - Driving the elements with >360 volts. - Find a solution to drive the 128 inputs from few microcontroller GPIO - Ultimately make it controllable with I2C/SPI/serial

Show threadNick PooleJun 7, 2023
@shapr I have one of those, but I haven't played with it yet!
Show threadShae ErissonJun 7, 2023
@North I have a few, one slightly fried from experiments.
One day I'll get back to playing with them.