'Scope (& Other) Clocks...

[Nick]

There's a number of folks on the neonixie-l group who design and make 'scope clocks based on mainly Russian NOS tubes. Grahame Marsh is one such whose work I really like.

His latest 'scope clock is at http://www.sgitheach.org.uk/scope2.html - the way the characters are drawn is extremely retro - its the way characters were originally generated for 'scopes & radar displays before concept of pixellated cells was invented - its all entirely analogue...

It's worth checking out his whole site, in particular his all-glass "Trigger Clock" at http://www.sgitheach.org.uk/nixie3.html

Cheers

[pwdrive]

I like the 'scope clocks, I wonder if you could do that with the shadow in the old style magic eye (tuning indicator) valves?

Lawrence.

[Yorkie]

Wonderful stuff Nick. I wish!

I've got a 3BP1 scope tube - a spare for the PW Purbeck which I built back in 1978. Oh well, a small step in the procurement stakes, but hardly off to a flying start!

(BTW, I don't have the software to open the files at the link).

[Joe]

See this http://www.cadsoftusa.com/download-eagle/freeware/, David.

- Joe

[Nick]

BTW, I don't have the software to open the files at the link

The link to the Cadsoft free version of Eagle has already been posted - just in case you weren't aware, Cadsoft was bought by Element 14, aka Farnell, about a year ago, so Eagle is fully integrated with Farnell's ordering for BOM management etc. Kind of fun.

The software is in C/C++ using the GNU CC compiler AVR (Atmel) port with the avr-libc libraries - these provide AVR-specific feature support to the code and was originally supported purely on Sourceforge (open source).

The maintainer of that code was then hired by Atmel to develop their free developer framework now called AVR Studio.

AVR Studio is still free and can be downloaded from http://www.atmel.com/tools/ATMELSTUDIO.aspx and includes everything that you need to inspect, modify and build the software for AVR8 & 32 bit microprocessors.

HTH

[Joe]

The software is in C/C++ using the GNU CC compiler AVR (Atmel) port with the avr-libc libraries - these provide AVR-specific feature support to the code

I could have sworn we had a rule about posts being in English.

- Joe