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« on: November 18, 2012, 07:01:57 pm » |
A VFD display for a buck. I have already figured out the pinouts for these LEDs, all work fine. The X/O display has two segments for the X's (/ and \) and four for the O's (N, S, E, and W crescents.) Everything I tried worked. Haven't done the VFD yet but they look like they are new condition, never used.  |
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2012, 08:15:05 pm » |
I like those 3-digit 7-segment displays. I'd buy a dozen just to have handy.
Not so sure about the X-in-O displays.
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« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2012, 09:09:38 pm » |
I like those 3-digit 7-segment displays. I'd buy a dozen just to have handy.
Not so sure about the X-in-O displays.
I bought (left to right) 10, 10, 5, 5, mostly on account of how little they all cost. |
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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2012, 11:38:18 pm » |
Not so sure about the X-in-O displays.
Arduino: noughts and crosses game! |
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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2012, 12:26:53 am » |
Not so sure about the X-in-O displays.
Arduino: noughts and crosses game! That was what I was thinking but there is a practical problem with the displays being 2x1 instead of 3x1 which is there is no possible way to fit them into a 3x3 board, so I guess you go with a 4x4 board which is less common around here. One possibility could be that each move is half an O or half an X because the segments are evenly divisible but I am not sure if that would make the game better or worse. I am even more interested in that VFD. I forgot that the filament driver is usually low voltage AC so I have to make a power supply to do that and start testing it out. |
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2012, 12:32:25 am » |
you can arrange them
121
122
1212
and have that one sticking out to indicate who's turn it is with 5 units
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2012, 01:50:21 am » |
The "XO" displays could make an interesting binary clock display: use the crescents for the low-order 4 bits, and the bars for the 3 high-order ones.
You could also use them to make an animated gauge by "spinning" it at a variable rate to show magnitude.
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