amstan 18 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 You know the drill. Same kind of promotion as http://forum.43oh.com/topic/4358-noritake-graphic-vfd-128x32-free-sample/. Link: http://www.noritake-elec.com/evalkit-sample.php?id=sample Expires 31 Jan 2014 at 7:00 PM CST. Description from the site: The SCK-Y100-24063-N14 is 24x6 character VFD module evaluation kit sample. It's easy setup with connect and send, highlight using selective brightness, and built-in international font tables with various font style commands. Best readability display under following conditions:Low ambient light condition -40 igor and abecedarian 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chibiace 46 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 usa and canada only as usual Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Got my email notification that the sample is on the way ("in a couple of weeks"). Woot! Sent from my Galaxy Note II with Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kat 7 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Got mine as well.... was buried in the spam folder Sent from my HTC Aria amstan 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amstan 18 Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 Got mine as well.... was buried in the spam folder Yep. Same! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kodi 16 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 If you are outside of USA and Canada, you still can try to send them a message - they are friendly bunch of people If you reside outside of US and Canada and interested in VFD module sample, please fill out the form and fill in your specification in the comment box. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Woo just received mine! Sent from my Galaxy Note II with Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Received mine yesterday. Power / data connection cable is identical to the GU128x32 one offered previously. And I was happy to see that when I plugged it in to the F5529 LP 5v header (lower left on the board), I had a nice blue 'underscore' cursor appear on the display, instead of the 'faint red lines' on the GU128x32. The location of the connector on the lower edge of the board made the board want to fall over forward, which was a little odd Now, since Noritake is a 'sponsor' of 43oh, maybe they can start providing code for more than Atmel / Arduino. I'm sure a phone call or two to TI could get them more than a few of each LaunchPad to play with, and probably a few of the other EXP kits as well. This would be a nice information panel for many purposes though the character size might be a bit small- around 2.5mm wide and 3.5mm tall, best my eyes can measure. I've already been thinking about how I could integrate this, and the GU display as well (the little one ), into a dashboard for my motorcycle. Even though it's only 6 lines, that's 12 variables I could easily display, and toss in the GU for a more analog look at some things and all that within less than a 4" x 4" display panel... and it's less than 3' from my face. Yes, I'm babbling. Feel free to ignore me. To illustrate, maybe: XYZ -------- TPS | MAP -------- ZYX ABC -------- CLT | IAT -------- CBAet cetera, and not to scale. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Now, since Noritake is a 'sponsor' of 43oh, maybe they can start providing code for more than Atmel / Arduino. I'm sure a phone call or two to TI could get them more than a few of each LaunchPad to play with, and probably a few of the other EXP kits as well. http://www.noritake-elec.com/arduino-code-library-quick-start-guide.php Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bluehash 1,581 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 @@abecedarian,you will like this. Ported to Stellaris Launchpad abecedarian and PedroDaGr8 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PedroDaGr8 33 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Congrats to the forum for this new sponsor. Hope it proves top be fruitful for both parties. Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I'll hand it to them on this one, they're probably a newer design--MCU onboard is the R5F2127, i.e. Renesas R8C (low-end MCU fusion of Hitachi H8 + Mitsubishi M16C), I think all the other samples I got were the original Hitachi-branded H8 (or H8S 32-bit MCU on the GU512x32 model). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 @@spirilis - Processor choice might have to do with this being a character display and not dot matrix like the GU displays? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spirilis 1,265 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 @@spirilis - Processor choice might have to do with this being a character display and not dot matrix like the GU displays? Indeed that would be why this has a lower-end 8/16-bit type of MCU (unlike the 32-bitter on the GU512x32), but the exact arch (R8C) is a successor to the older H8, so it's still evidence of a "newer" design regardless Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amstan 18 Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 I got mine a few days ago. I wrote a python3 driver for it: https://github.com/amstan/pynoritake I also tried to emulate the squiggle from this lcd megademo 2, Just run ./squiggle_noritake.py to see it on ttyUSB0, you'll need numpy as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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