EDIT: Nevermind - according to Altitude these displays don’t work with the MB6582 boards without some driver hacking… See his posts below.
################################################
Anyone interested in a group buy from Noritake-vfd.com? They have great sales on a pretty regular basis, and right now 20x4 VFDs are on sale for $18. Just so happens I have to buy a 20x4 for the SID PCB I just ordered..
They’re very nice displays - I have 40x2’s on my SEQ and they are great. Very fast updates.
I’m happy to run a buy, but if someone in the states wants to do it, it would be significantly cheaper. Noritake ships from the US, I think shipping is about $10 within the US for a small-ish order. Shipping to Canada would mean higher shipping costs + the possibility of import taxes on a large order.
The picture below is a little blurry, these displays are very sharp - much sharper than it looks in the picture below. Really bright too.
He got it working on a bare core without the CS (I sent him one to try to sort it out), I could duplicate that here as well but it crashes if you connect it to a MB6582 mainboard, you get garbled display once you start using the controls it will eventual go out. Someone with time, a MB6582 mainboard, and knowledge of writing drivers may figure it out. It’s not the same thing Hawkeye used in his.
I got very excited about this as well and bought 5 but they do NOT work with any existing driver. If you want to give it a go, I’ll send you one, just pay shipping
Confirmed, it is difficult… It works fine in my MB6582, but not in Altitudes, despite identical codebase - sth is different. It works fine on a bare 8-bit core, though.
And I think it should be possible to get it working in 32-bit land, as well. The price is great, but only worth the hassle if you are ready for some PIC assembler headaches :-).
