Society of Robots - Robot Forum
Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: airman00 on January 06, 2009, 09:37:52 PM
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Have a look at what CuriousInventor did : http://curiousinventor.com/blog/55
Its a GMail Email Mail Counter using Nixie Tubes
(http://www.curiousinventor.com/images/blog/nixie/nixie_gmail_count.jpg)
btw Nixie Tubes are awesome and steampunkish
This picture should be self-explanatory as to how it works
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ZM1210-operating_edit2.jpg)
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Looks easy to do with the $50 Robot . . .
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Looks easy to do with the $50 Robot . . .
yeah, easy to do with any microcontroller
I've never seen Nixie Tubes before this project and I think they are fascinating! They're the back-in-the-old-days approach to 7 digit LED Displays.
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How do you do it???
Do you have a program running on the PC that reads the # of new messages and then sends it over a serial port to the microcontroller?
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How do you do it???
Do you have a program running on the PC that reads the # of new messages and then sends it over a serial port to the microcontroller?
http://curiousinventor.com/blog/55