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Do you mean the tiny figure in this video? Or a proper 1:3 scale BJD? Though the answer is yes to both :-)

It's not an LED display but a plasma panel. Presumably yes, it came from an old bus, as I've seen something similar on a very old one near Ebetsu and thought "wow this must be a tired LED panel with the unlit pixels being so bright" - and then realized it's not LED. But that's the only time I've seen one in the wild.

About half a meter wide, the screen area itself is like 350x60mm though

That's the exact reason I've worked to reuse the original driver board, it's a bit tedious. Think like a 1616-digit nixie, or an array of 1616 neon lightbulbs :-) The design process also didn't literally exist, I was just wiring things together on a whim and building a case in a similar fashion, without ever thinking ahead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@app0the that certainly makes it easier, what did it come out of?

Judging by the burn-in, probably from a bus or a train

Какой код, такое и название %) правда диска там нет, поэтому теперь это ПИС-ОС - ОС для Плазменной Информационной Системы

А дождь ты и не заметил значит

@@app0the писдос все оценили зато

I've changed it actually after filming to stuff in windspeed. FWIW I might just put up windspeed instead of the humidity and place the humidity in the scroller. I rarely need to know the pressure (and at that I usually need the trend and not the value), and I don't ever remember wondering about the humidity. The feels like column might also have to go. But for now I'm super tired of this project and don't want to touch it for the next year anymore :P

Thank you very much for the kind words If I had a way to get those plasma panels en masse I would think about it. But really the whole project was done on a whim, no schematics exist, and the only drawings of the case are just a few post-its where I was checking what size I need to ask the clerk to cut my lumber into and how much woodgrain film to buy (and I messed up anyway) There isn't much architecture to the code so wiring more things into it might prove difficult. The graphics side of things is kinda portable though... As long as your display is an integer multiple of 101x16 and lays out the framebuffer horizontally :-) Not sure if LEDs would look as good?

On a sidenote I've found a few tiny VFDs from arcade cabinets, so I'm considering making a pocket version of this. With a taptic engine instead of the buzzer for the ticking sound :-)

Agreed! No idea how this made it into my YT, but I liked and subbed because it's awesome. I would buy one of these immediately.

Thanks!

cum-pot

This one was a miracle, I got it from Yahoo for around 9000 yen in total. Sadly the original control board (8085 based) was dead and covered in lacquer, and the drive board of the tube needed some repairs too. But now it's safe for quite some time, I'll post a new video once I'm done with the firmware, so please subscribe and stay tuned! :-)

There is no disk in the device so it will be renamed to PIS-OS. And since it's designed for a display device that lets you see things, the slogan will be "So see... PIS-OS!"

​@@app0the ok, but it also "bad" word :) May be Cosm-OS?

lame name it tits if it fits 8===D----- ( . )( . )

Yes I agree, it stands for Plasma Information System - DOS. However, since there is no disk in the thing, I'll probably change the final firmware version to just be called PIS-OS.

As russian, i understand

@@app0the on our language it sounds like “oh sh#t” or “f@cked up”

@@HYDROXYMETHYLQINOXALINDIOXIDE «А почему "Ы"?» - «Чтоб никто не догадался!» Ⓒ :-)

It is a genuine plasma (or nixie, not sure how to tell them apart) tube. I have no idea of the type, but it seems to be from an old bus or train, given the burned in characters. You can read more on my quest of how I was getting it to run at eevblog forums: www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/trying-to-figure-out-if-a-vfd-displaydriver-is-broken-(74-series-logic)/

@@app0the It's a gas plasma display. Nixie tubes used shaped numerals that glows. This is a flat panel with pixels, hence no Nixie.

@@zaprodk thanks, that makes it clear. So the difference is by the structure, not by operation principle

Вот тут есть, да, но там тот ещё говнокод github.com/vladkorotnev/TapeStuff

Pretty sure this is the one www.midi-karaoke.info/210ef1ad.ru.html

Wow, thanks @@app0the

People on the included default Hotline servers kept cursing me for making this app because apparently it for some reason appealed to horny arabs enough to paralyze the chat for a while at one point even. Plus my code was super crap, and a new version is hard since I don't remember the protocol, and Epo who explained it to me has passed away a few years ago...