I've got 9 completed smartsocket boards built to start out and another dozen without anything on the boards yet. I'm actually thinking of hooking some up this weekend with the calculator program John Taylor created to test the smartsockets. Maybe link a few together and send some $B7Mxxxxxxxx and some fonts and effects... I've got all of the pieces I need I think. I got an old laptop power supply to be my main PS. It's 12V/5A. I have a circuit that takes 12V and outputs both 5V and 3.3V, a logic converter circuit to switch the raspberry pi 3.3 logic to 5V for the smartsockets, and 4 of John Taylor's HVPS the vertical smaller ones. I've heard you can run 3 b-7971 off one of his PS but I may use one per two tubes to be conservative so lighting all the segments and underline won't strain things.
With the pi running the show it'll have ntp and interface to pretty much anything on the net. I'm thinking to use python on the pi. Remote control can be from the web or from Android app later after the pi3 is running ok. Bill On Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 5:53 AM 'Greg P' via neonixie-l < neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I too have a stash of 5971's I'd like to put to use. I'll be curious to > see how the Smart Socket project turns out. How many tubes will be in your > 7971 array? > > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 10:47:20 PM UTC-4, Bill Notfaded wrote: >> >> I concur Greg my emerald is a keeper... I can't wait until Michail and >> team get our baby 5971's smartsockets going too! I'll make some video of >> the whole family together. ;^} >> >> I'm working on a bigger 7971 array with Taylor ss and a raspberry pi3 >> front end so I can sky is limit interface to the array connected to the net. >> >> Bill >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/ABubZ9SFKRI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/150d38ed-bdc5-4c18-95e4-d9029025684f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/150d38ed-bdc5-4c18-95e4-d9029025684f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CADToqn05GfvigtkhvuzQxZQXqgjKzaj2yyLh6iM-8KYQxBRU6A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
