My first encounter with VFD!

VFD Clock - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_AAM7tP
VFD 40x2 USB Display - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_AdFWS9

Other links from the video:
Realterm terminal application - https://sourceforge.net/projects/real...
EEVblog VFD video -    • EEVblog #717 - How To Hack Vacuum Flu...  
Reusing Vacuum Fluorescent Displays -    • Reusing Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (...  
Serial Port Monitor - https://www.serial-port-monitor.org/
CH340 driver download - http://www.wch-ic.com/downloads/file/...
Matrix Orbital LK40x2 - https://www.matrixorbital.com/lk402-25
Notepad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
Notepad++ HEX viewer plugin - https://appuals.com/how-to-install-no...

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:11 Clock Display Overview
01:59 40x2 Display Overview
03:04 Connection display to PC
03:32 Installing Drivers
04:13 AIDA64
09:09 RealTerm
11:42 Serial Port Monitor
18:33 RealTerm, but now it works
20:44 Getting VFDs from old equipment
21:00 What I have so far...


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Hello! This is my first testing of VFD displays. This technology is quite old, and those displays are not used anymore, as they were replaced with "better" technology, like LCD and OLED. However, there is one thing that you cannot simulate, and that´s the retro-futuristic sci-fi feel of those VFD Displays. I don´t know about you, but I simply love that glowing green light. It reminds me of the movies TRON and Back to the Future.

I was looking into options for getting the ready-to-use displays, and I did find two suitable displays - a clock display, and a 40x20 character display. The 40x2 character display could be connected directly to the PC via micro USB cable and used with the application AIDA64 to display system status information - memory usage, processor usage, time, date, CPU and GPU temperatures, fan speeds, etc. You can also use a terminal application like RealTerm or Putty to display your own data by just sending the strings directly.

Unfortunately, I wasn´t able to create my own characters or do any advanced drawing with the 40x2 display. It doesn´t work and I don´t know why. Hopefully next time. If you have any idea why you think it´s not working, I would be very glad to know it.



Do you have any questions? Suggestions for the next video? Please put those down in the comment section. I try to answer as many questions as I can. Thank you for watching, and reading the video description and I hope to see you next time. Good luck with your projects!

#arduino #vfd #futuristic

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