Cool INS-1 project

[David Pye]

Hi,

This isn't mine, but I heard a talk from the creator and a chance to view this in the flesh in Berlin this weekend.

I don' t think it's been posted here before:

https://hackaday.io/project/173636-neon-pixels

It's not necessarily how I would have done it, but having a tiny MCU-controlled boost circuit per INS-1 is a cool idea.

If you want something even cooler, how about an INS-1 matrix, driven by core-store memory, that you can flip with magnets?

https://hackaday.io/project/166155-core-64-interactive-core-memory-badge/log/187719-core-memory-neon-pixels

David

[gregebert]

Any chance the demo had all of the bulbs energized at-once ?

I made a clock with simulated moving hands that uses 300+ NE2H bulbs, and when all of them are energized you can feel the heat from it. I think INS-1 indicators use more power than NE-2H, so juicing that clock up would be an experience.

[Nick Andrews]

That's some full-on psycho-masochism there.  I love it!  Note to self, hoard INS-1 before the price starts to skyrocket...

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