This is a simple GUI made to interface with some Noritake serial VFD (tested with BA63 and BA66, may work with more) Customer and Operator Displays.

These displays are great. Yes, I know that LED and LCD displays exist and draw much less power, are much less fragile and way easier to find/replace but VFDs are special. They have great contrast and can be read easily. Also you just can't beat that retro/steampunk look!

These displays use 5V logic level and 12V for power. If you try to use them with a USB to UART bridge or a 3.3V microcontroller like I did, it won't work because you need a logic level shifter such as the MAX3232 in between.

pinouts: connector and jumpers.

For now the displays can show:

• Static messages
• Scrolling messages
• Flashing messages

• Finish the new WPF GUI yeah...no. If i ever end up working on this project it will be xplatform fo sho.
• Finish implementing all scrolling modes
• 2x20 or 4x20 display mode option

Maybe:

• VU Meter mode VFDs can't handle such refresh rates, unfortunately.
• System resources monitor
• System hardware status monitor
• Mail notifier
• RSS reader/(torrent :P) notifier

SouLSLayeR