the completed orange ticking thing

A plasma/neon display based IoT clock/thermometer/weather station that I made over the past month
Based on ESP32 and a Morio Denki 16101DS plasma dot-matrix display
Code: github.com/vla...
EEVBlog kickstart thread: www.eevblog.co...
日本語での解説記事:
elchika.com/ar...

[@app0the]

Lovely how this is taking off, thanks to everyone for all the kind words! It truly feels like I've created something worthwhile for the first time in my life.
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[@PosyMusic]

What a pretty display! 🥰 I could never bring such a thing back to life... love the animations :)

[@app0the]

Hey, thanks for tuning in! And feel free to drop me a message if you need help bringing anything back from the dead, I'll try my best to help, even if it's just advice over email :-)

[@svofski]

lovely idea with the rain display :)

[@MrNerdHair]

Very sweet! The thread with the backstory really makes it special.

[@wanderer.archives]

This is really cool!! reminds me of the old PLATO displays; I definitely want one now :)

[@ika32]

I feel like if would be good if you abbreviated some things, like when it says the weather. Instead of saying "The pressure is" you could do "Pressure=", or even "P=". Imo, the way you have it it seems like it would be really annoying to try to read it, because it's so slow to scroll through (Unless you have the footage slowed down).

[@app0the]

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

[@uniqueprogressive9908]

I WANT THIS!... By the way, you should make this a kit for people to buy. I would buy one to hook up with my locally hosted home assistant

[@app0the]

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?

[@app0the]

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 :-)

[@awdturbopowah773]

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.

[@Scrogan]

Kino. Never heard of plasma dot matrix displays before, what are they like to obtain and drive? A showcase of the internals and design process would be a fun video (e.g. mitxela).

[@app0the]

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)_/¯

[@Scrogan]

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

[@app0the]

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

[@SmileyFace01]

oh wait this thing is like gigantic
I love it

[@app0the]

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

[@Geo64x]

To Hel and Back Again

[@pon_dgon]

2:54 Oooh, I can see the Japanese text burned on the left side, it says "次は". Was this orange LED display used for displaying train station name or something?

[@app0the]

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.

[@nskpsycho]

Yes.

[@neoquitoy9161]

Holy tis sick

[@espero21]

Музыка более няшная, чем иконки погоды.

[@jakethegeologist3302]

nice!

[@app0the]

Thanks!

[@rdrukh8948]

Жесткая жесть 10/10

[@namikiri]

После wake up neo ожидал you obosralsya, мдаааааааа

[@app0the]

А дождь ты и не заметил значит

[@strelkan]

@@app0the писдос все оценили зато