Project Status - feel free to ask questions !

[coggs]

Hi everyone -

This past week I've been working on the code and the enclosure;

As of today, All low-level routines have been written for the high-
voltage, display multiplexing, buttons, serial I/O, and non-volatile
clock. You can set the time from USB or the buttons, and there's
several diagnostic modes for use mainly during manufacturing test, but
will be fun to play with.

I have 25 boards back from the contract manufacturer, and these await
stuffing of the through-hole parts - voltage regulators, nixies, etc.

I'm worked on the enclosure; I've posted a little information about
that on on the rss feed.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog

Again, this group is primarily for people to talk back to me or each
other, so please don't hesitate.

Cheers,
..c

[coggs]

Latest update:

http://www.cogwheel.com/nixie/blog.xml

[brianstuckey]

VI? You're a trooper!

[coggs]

URL more properly should have been: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog

VI: Yes. After nearly 20 years, the lower brain stem has the keys
memorized...
I might've abandoned it for some fangled IDEs if it weren't for gvim's
symbol auto-completion (^P ^N). The innovation
that kept me around before that was ctags (^T warps you to the file
and the symbol def) That's all I need.

Then I have a perl script in another window that watches for a source
file being modified. BAM ! It's
compiled and uploaded in under 20 seconds. Oh Yeah.

[brianstuckey]

I've tried to learn VI, but I can't ever bring myself to use it
completely. I like emacs....but 99% of my stuff is done in xcode.

Brian

[coggs]

Received my first enclosures from ponoko. I think the look great.
Still deciding final material choice. acrylic ? clear ? solid ?
translucent ? back-painted ? Wood ? Mix wood and acrylic ?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog

[coggs]

Here's where Cogwheel Nixie code-development stands:

$ pwd
/cygdrive/d/coggs/arduino/nixie_system

Code Written

$ cloc *.cpp *.h
28 text files.
28 unique files.
0 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.51 T=2.0 s (14.0 files/s, 2616.0
lines/s)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank
comment code

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C++ 14 838
807 2673
C/C++ Header 14 232
121 561

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 28 1070
928 3234

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Memory used on processor

AVR Memory Usage
----------------
Device: atmega328p

Program: 19790 bytes (60.4% Full)
(.text + .data + .bootloader)

Data: 967 bytes (47.2% Full)
(.data + .bss + .noinit)

Features Implemented So Far

Features Implemented so far

o All Low-level hw drivers
o High Voltage and Multiplexing w/Safety cut-off
o Manufacturing Tests
o Programmable from USB Serial Command Line Interpreter
o Programmable from buttons...
o Maintain Time in 24 or 12 mode
o Maintain Year, Month, Day, display in YYYY-MM-DD or MM-DD-YYYY
formats
o Cross-Fade
o On-Time and Off-Time
o Brightness


I think the only thing remaining feature-wise will be to implement USA
DST rules,
and an auto-cycle-through Time->Date feature.

Then I will focus on getting a bunch of these built up.

Cheers,
..c

[coggs]

Project update:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog

[coggs]

Another Project update:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog


On Sep 16, 7:01 pm, coggs <bob.coggesh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Project update:
>
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog

[coggs]

Project update -

Another Project update:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog

As always, you can click through for a mega-sized picture.

..c

[coggs]

Project update -

Another Project update:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog

..c

[coggs]

Update Jan 2011

Happy (belated) Near Year ! And thanks to all who have shown curiosity
in my nixie tube project. Here's where it stands; Code is officially
FROZEN ! I have a release candidate running on the first run of boards
and I am doing final regression testing. The first product will be a
completed clock in a cherry veneer enclosure shown here. I also have a
final draft of the user documentation ready to go. On top of that, I
have been building a new web site using modern practices (cogwheel.com
dates from the earliest days of the world wide web and has been
showing its age for a while). So this will probably be the last update
you see before the new site is up. Thanks again !

For picture see:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CogwheelNixieBlog