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Arduino UNO provides 6 bit data and the necessary handshaking logic for a vintage Burroughs SSD0132-0040 Self-Scan gas plasma display c.1976. The row of LED blinky lights, aside from being mesmerizing, shows the state of the interface logic with delays built into the sketch to help diagnostics (on my first attempt I had the 6 data bits in reverse order). This pic shows clearly the dot matrix pattern making up each character.
The old train indicator at St. James's Park in 1980, with the replacement dot matrix equipment in the backgound (two different models were on trial).
Bullocks Coaches of Cheadle: (C719 NCD) an East Lancs bodied Dennis Dominator, painted in fleet livery of red and white. This vehicle is seen here parked in the yard off Demmings Road Industrial Estate in Cheadle.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: Unknown.
Ref No. 0001308.
This is a letter my brother wrote to President Bush in 1990 about the crisis in the Persian Gulf, when he was ten years old and in the fifth grade. Check out the dot matrix printer!
Departures dot matrix board information sign at Great Yarmouth Station at the end of the Wherry Line in Norfolk (UK).
Want to travel to Norwich? Today is not a good day..
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Here’s the kit all soldered together and just requiring the LED matrix and the Max7219 IC to be inserted. The Max7219 IC orientation was a no brainer as the silk screen printing shows a notch but I had to guess with the LED matrix. I put the side with the text “FJS1088AH” to the bottom of the PCB and it worked.
There are several Ardunio examples and libraries for using the Max7219 IC but I still had a hard time getting some code working to properly test the board. It felt like it took longer to display something than it did to solder the board together.
The flash tends to wash the LEDs out so I faked them a little.
Deal Extreme: DIY MAX7219 Red LED Dot Matrix Display Module for Arduino – Green (SKU: 151840)
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Original with lighting details here:
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I used the Tonal compensation B&W conversion from Color Efex Pro 3.0 in Capture NX2
Two hundred fleet numbers separate these two Dennis Trident buses - both new to Coventry garage in August 2001 and January 2003 respectively. 4210 illustrates the later LED-type destination display, while 4410 retains its original Dot matrix type.
ex Tracline 2962's Tracline65 specified destination display has gone wrong and needs repairing.
2962-8102-rt129faultyDotMatrix(09Y91)3410
I bought this kit from Deal Extreme to have a play with a LED matrix. The title of the item does not make it clear what colour the LEDs are but I found mine to be red. Perhaps they are covering all bases.
Deal Extreme: DIY MAX7219 Red LED Dot Matrix Display Module for Arduino – Green (SKU: 151840)
A live stream, in which the comments were sent to a dot-matrix printer. The paper was fed straight out of this into a shredder in one continuous motion.
A live stream, in which the comments were sent to a dot-matrix printer. The paper was fed straight out of this into a shredder in one continuous motion.
This is a Bright-Tech Developments Dot Matrix Bus Display, this unit was removed as it no longer worked. It has been cleaned for photo however it is broken. Water leaked through broken seal on rear window and damaged the motherboard. The light Photoed was a Link-Light, However I now have the F15/135 T5 Tube working again with a new ballast.
On YOUTUBE I have a Bright-Tech Developments LED Front, Bright-Dot Side & Power Rollers Rear working. Just Click On The Link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S49xp0_x2yE
Arduino UNO provides 6 bit data and the necessary handshaking logic for a vintage Burroughs SSD0132-0040 Self-Scan gas plasma display c.1976. The row of LED blinky lights, aside from being mesmerizing, shows the state of the interface logic with delays built into the sketch to help diagnostics (on my first attempt I had the 6 data bits in reverse order).
[by jwcurry.
Brantford, privately published, 198-?. 5 copies].
1-1/2 x 1-1/2, white thin bond broadside printed black dotmatrix.
I like the kit. All the components are through-hole, the major components are socketed (the LED matrix and the Max7219 IC) and the others are simple. Importantly there’s not too many of them. Perhaps the only catch is the polarity of the electrolytic capacitor and its height due to the LED matrix being mounted over the top of it.
Deal Extreme: DIY MAX7219 Red LED Dot Matrix Display Module for Arduino – Green (SKU: 151840)
the fourth dotmatrix project shook, stirred and mixed it up real nice. tom beardslee kicked off the night with his storytelling blues playing and then possum jenkins simply brought down the house. all due respect to shooter jennings, but these guys put the "o" back in country that night.
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Photo by John Leonard
The seventh dotmatrix project brought together two greensboro songwriters, historians, and musicians. Yet both ladies, accomplished musicians in well-known bands across the Carolinas and beyond kept reminding the audience to be kind: This solo performance was a first for both.
Riannon Giddens is a world-traveling musician with the black string preservation band, The Carolina Chocolate Drops. The project was one of her first solo debuts, relying only occasionally on the support of Laurelyn Dossett and guitarist Scott Manring. Her roots music included a few original tunes, such as the ballsy-blues girl ballad, "Two-time Loser." And with her early vocal training at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory, Rhiannon performed a multi-lingual, multi-cultural act, singing in languages known only in the Gaelic-Scottish regions, plus "Mal Hombre" in Spanish, and "Slaves Lament." A regularly touring musician, Rhiannon made the most of the hometown gig, and brought her sister on stage for gospel songs that featured harmonies only possible from a childhood spent singing together. Off her usual repertoire, however, Rhiannon dropped in a tune she's always wanted to sing, she said, Patsy Cline's, "I Fall to Pieces."
Laurelyn Dossett also made a break from her regular appearances with Polecat Creek, and sang songs she's written for the band, and more recently, songs she's created for the original "playsical" projects at Triad Stage, such as "Brother Wolf" and "Bloody Blackbeard." While Dossett played solo, she played many songs originally written for the bluegrass and Old Time string, such as "Midway Road" and "The Island," off the band's new album "Ordinary Seasons." With a story behind every tune, Dossett is something of a modern historian, writing songs that tell stories from the Piedmont region, such as "Leaving Eden," which chronicles the night drive of a mother and her children as they leave a community built on and later burned by a collapsing textile industry. One hot October night in early 2000 inspired "Surry County's" burning. With guitarist Scott Manring, and vocalist Rhiannon Giddens occasionally joining her on set, Laurelyn rocked a set that's usually reserved for the more, well, reserved audience.
And the audience came to listen. Before the first guitar was tuned, listeners lined up chairs, settling in with their dark brews in tall pint glasses, only breaking the silence to applaud, stomp, sing along, or laugh.
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Photo by Mark Smith
This is a poem I wrote at school when I was 9 or 10 years old. We were given a title, and had to write a poem based on it. I remember the teacher liking it, and the headmistress. Several years later, the headmistress retired. My dad went to her retirement party, as he was on the board of governors at the school. She gave him this to bring home. Apparently she had liked it so much that she had framed it, and kept it in her office. I think I typed this out on the BBC computer we had at school, and it was printed on a dot matrix printer. I like it, although I cringe at my use of the word "surrealism"...must have seemed quite pretentious for a 9 or 10 year old to use a word like that, and I vaguely remember only using it as I had just learned the word and thought it would be impressive to use.
Original Nintendo Game Boy @ Barbican's "Digital Revolution" exhibition.
"Digital Revolution explores and celebrates the transformation of the arts through digital technology since the 1970s. The exhibition brings together for the first time a range of artists, filmmakers, architects, designers, musicians and game developers, who are using digital media to push the boundaries of their fields. The show also looks to the future and considers the impact of creative coding, DIY and maker-culture, digital communities and the creative possibilities offered by augmented reality, artificial intelligence, wearable technologies and 3D printing.
The exhibition includes new commissions from design studios Umbrellium (Usman Haque and Nitipak 'Dot' Samsen), Universal Everything and Minimaforms (Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos); global music artist and entrepreneur will.i.am, Yuri Suzuki, Pasha Shapiro and Ernst Weber; and a range of artists and performers including Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, Björk, Amon Tobin, CuteCircuit and work by Oscar®-winning visual effects (VFX) Supervisor Paul Franklin and his team at Double Negative for Christopher Nolan’s groundbreaking film Inception (2010). The Barbican have collaborated with Google on a new project called DevArt and presents four new gallery commissions by Karsten Schmidt, Zach Lieberman, Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet, as well as competition winners Cyril Diagne and Beatrice Lartigue.
Digital Revolution presents a number of impressive new installations, featuring interactive art works and exhibition-based displays. Umbrellium, best known for their large-scale and mass-participatory outdoor events, have produced their first work within a theatre setting. This immersive piece fills the space with a series of magical interactive laser sculptures, set within an otherworldly audio environment. Universal Everything, one of the UK's leading media art studios, have developed a piece for the Barbican's Silk Street entrance allowing visitors to submit a hand-drawn animated artwork that features within the gallery. The exhibition also includes the filmmaker and artist Chris Milk with his major shadow play work The Treachery of Sanctuary, presented in the UK for the first time.
Our Digital Futures section explores artists’ use of recently possible and emerging technologies with London based Studio XO for TechHaus, the technical division of Lady Gaga's Haus of Gaga, wearable technology by Pauline van Dongen and a robotic installation by Minimaforms (Theodore Spyropoulos and Stephen Spyropoulos) .
Digital Revolution was a festival-style exhibition and the most comprehensive presentation of digital creativity ever in the UK. Taking place across the Barbican with ticketed and non-ticketed elements and incorporating an offsite commission. It was accompanied by a talks and events programme and a dedicated publication."
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After looking at schematics and the pin out for the Max7219 IC I worked out part of my problem. The pin labelled “CS” (Chip Select or Chip Enable on SPI interfaces) is really a “Load” pin. Maybe there’s a reason for this labelling but it’s unclear to me.
The flash tends to wash the LEDs out so again I’ve faked them a little.
Deal Extreme: DIY MAX7219 Red LED Dot Matrix Display Module for Arduino – Green (SKU: 151840)
A pair of 5x7 dot LED dot-matrix displays on some veroboard with five 2N3703 driver transistors. The displays are Kingbright TA12-11 types, with green LEDs, and surprisingly inexpensive.
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VanCityBuzz featured some of my photos of Anime Evolution on his blog. Here's a link to his original post about the convention.
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As the title and the image says, it's a shot of the Indepent Daily paper (a national daily in the UK) - this was as i mention in the 'rollup' image before this, that it was one of my very first attempts at testing out the all important (to me) macro capabilities of my new camera, bought literally moments earlier, we settled in a nearby pub beer garden in the early evening sun, to settle and let the spin of Tottenham Court Road and the Techno-Gadgetry-Computer-Camerarama shops calm and ease from our spinning heads, as i assess with a nervous excitement whether i have , after all, made the right purchase for me.
I think so ;) - if you have time, view this image in VERY large, it was a shot i so nearly deleted as a tester , but the more i looked the more i liked, the date coming just neatly into frame, the title of the publication, the obvious conclusion of the name in the headline, taken during the summer *before* he was made the 1st black president of the USA(?), and above all , as far as my camera satisfaction is concerned, the fibres in every sheet of the gently curved paper, and the Andy Warhol style huge Bl&W dot matrix image. . yeah, it grew on me, and i think it has something to say for itself, perhaps, :)
I've been doing some cleaning and look what I found! And, it still works! Tetris is the best game ever. :) I'm really pointing with my pointer finger, but it kind of looks like my pinky - weird.
I missed last week - just felt uninspired, I guess.
Oh, and I'm now on Twitter - come find me there: twitter.com/pketron
the sixth dotmatrix project brought together two greensboro acts with very different sounds. janik started off the evening employing a rich sound (stand-up bass, keyboard, castanets, drums, electric bass and guitar), changing up between textured melodies and jungle, lyrical tunes layered with lead singer mariana bracone's unique vocals. the tiny meteors then came on and tried to blow their amps with a hard driving rock, guitar/bass/drums set. kemp stroble brought his vocals with straight-forward intensity over sheets of guitar rock madness.
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Photo by Elizabeth Lemon
An overhead gantry direction sign approaching the Holmesdale Tunnel and junction 25 on the anti clockwise M25 London Orbital Motorway near Enfield and Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire (UK).
Note the dot matrix signs are showing the motorway is completely closed ahead due to a 'police incident' and all 3 lanes of traffic must exit at the next junction i.e. junction 25.
The sign advises drivers to follow the official Highways Agency M25 yellow square 'emergency diversion route' which will follow the A10 southbound towards and to join the A406 North Circular Road westbound then to join the A1 northbound which will lead back to junction 23 where drivers will rejoin the motorway.
If only it was that easy..
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the fifth dotmatrix project brought together two greensboro acts, each with little time playing together, yet both with big, unique sounds. project tritium kicked off the evening with james marshall owen dropping his bowie-esque delivery and jagger-esque stage presence over highly composed music and sounds that at times seemed improvised. the raving knaves then took the stage (and our sound engineer) and rocked their set with a variety of kinetic, powerpop tunes. david mclean's hips might still be gyrating. a fine time had by all.
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Photo by John Leonard
Coach U outside door dot matrix destination board which is part of British Rail Class 390 'Pendolino' Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 390112 as operated by Virgin Trains at Euston Station in London (UK).
Coach U along with the rest of the coaches is about to work the 1H64 09:40 service to Manchester Piccadilly and was David and his wife's train as far as Crewe.
The train number means:
VT = Virgin Trains
1 = Express Passenger
H = Region or Destination the train is heading to? (not sure)
64 = Path and/or destination code number? (not sure lol)
1H64 on its own is the train reporting or headcode number as used by the TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) railway operation system which is operated by Network Rail.
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Photograph taken by fellow enthusiast and my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with kind permission.