29 December 2015

Striped print on Epson inkjet printer

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We own an Epson XP-215 inkjet printer/scanner/copier. We print/copy very seldomly and very few pages each time. One of these days I had to c...
24 December 2015

biNixie clock: completed.

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Less than six months, from first purchase to a completed device. This is a personal record! In May 2015 I bought some Burroughs B5092 Nixi...
20 December 2015

TIL305 on driver's back

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Fast forward to the arrival of ATtiny4313 through few design considerations about controlling TIL305 displays "remotely", and a ...
14 December 2015

CCFL laptop inverter board for Nixie/valve testing - 3 - keeping it on

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As it can be seen in the video of a previous post, the CCFL driver enters a shutdown mode if there is no lamp connected. According to the c...
13 December 2015

ATmega48 controls TIL305 with custom font

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Before ordering a bunch of ATtiny2313/4313 I wanted to be sure I could control the TIL305 dot matrix display. After few trial and error I ch...
04 December 2015

INPUT_PULLUP and dot matrix display

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I tried to use the Atmel uC pullup resistor on input lines to limit the current through an LED (the TIL305 dot matrix display in my case). T...
02 December 2015

Dot matrix display programmable interface - for TIL305

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Thinking how to use those TIL305 matrix displays, I came up with a way to interface them with an ATtiny2313 saving the correct pins for I2C/...
01 December 2015

A bag of matrix display from the past: TIL305

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3 types of TIL305. At the last edition of the local HAM flea market I got a bag of TIL305 5x7 dot matrix displays . [I got quite a lot o...