Twitter VFD Display

Image by Quasimondo
Built a display for Twitter messages using a used VFD cashier display, an Arduino board and Flash.

The arduino-side code is very basic:

#include
#define rxPin 2
#define txPin 3

// set up a new serial port
SoftwareSerial mySerial = SoftwareSerial(rxPin, txPin);

void setup() {
// define pin modes for tx, rx, led pins:
pinMode(rxPin, INPUT);
pinMode(txPin, OUTPUT);

// set the data rate for the SoftwareSerial port
Serial.begin(4800);

mySerial.begin(9600);

mySerial.print(0x10,BYTE);
mySerial.print(0x14,BYTE);
mySerial.print(0x0c,BYTE);

}

void loop() {
if ( Serial.available() > 0 ) mySerial.print(Serial.read(), BYTE);
}

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