I display local wind speed and direction on them which I scrape from a web page. A recent project resulted in the tubes scrolling a message 'ITS JUST AFTER FIVE IN' and then displaying the name of a place in the world where it was between 17:00 and 18:00 - the idea came from a friend who wants to put a display in a 'bar' that he is building! Personally I like seeing live data from the environment so things like temp, pressure, wind speed and direction interest me (I sail and dive locally). But, as you say, meaningful data rather than just a clock is quite exciting. Others have displayed RSS Feeds, web page visitor counts, random words or expressions etc.
As others have also said, if you ultimately decide to do nothing with them, I too could give them a good home! - Richard On Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:15:35 UTC+1, LeRoy Lee wrote: > > I have 10 of the B7971 display tubes and I need to test them to verify > they work, and then I want to find some interesting use for them beyond a > clock. Seems a waste to use only for numbers when they can do so much more. > Any easy way to verify the tubes, and do any of you have unique ideas for > their use? > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/466e2051-f571-44f8-a833-036a0dc00c70o%40googlegroups.com.
