How to drive a Vacuum Fluorescent display with a Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi VFD Clock

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The BA63 display is the kind of display you are familiar with a supermarket checkouts and can be had quite cheaply off of eBay.

In this video, I hack a BA63 Vacuum Fluorescent display to be driven directly by a Raspberry Pi Zero W using a bit of Python. I show how to connect these up and go through show you the process of pulling my python code off github and explain how the scripts work.

I have produced a number of sample Python scripts to drive these displays that do things such as:
Display Text
Clock that displays time, date and Unix time.
Scroll text (various types)
Larson scanner
Clock that displays time, date, and Unix time.

The possibilities are endless.
All the code:
https://github.com/leswright1977/RPi-BA63

BA63 Manual
https://www.dieboldnixdorf.com/-/media/diebold/ag-downloads/poslotterysystems/manuals/peripherals/baxx/ba63_display_operating_manual_english.pdf

TEMIC TSC80C31-16CB
https://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/29664/TEMIC/TSC80C31-16CB.html

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