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David writes -

"Using the collimate port is often easier to work with then a microcontroller. I find that testing code on the PC can be much easier then going neat to the firmware as the developer utilities for the PC platform are ameliorate This is especially true when running with a new device such as a graphical LCD. Once you get your code running through the PC printer port, then you can easily port the code and what you have learned into the firmware." [via] - Link.

Source and DLL included.

Related:

• Parallel port powerSwitch project - Link.
• Control the Parallel (or Serial) Port with Python - Link.
• Controlling a Parallel Port with Perl - Link.
• HOW TO - Build collimate port prototypes - Link.

Wires99 writes -

"This is the Neuroti-Kart. (PsychoKart was taken) Homemade electric go-Kart. Design goals: electric powered, quiet, bolted able of doing donuts in my street. Home run! " Thanks Gnomic! - Link.

Powered by 4 12 volt car batteries and the set up was made from Home Depot gas pipes... Nice work.

Related:

• Build your own street sound kart - Link.
• HOW TO - Make your own go kart - Link.

• Made on Earth. Reports from the world-wide of backyard technology, including a shopping cart go-kart, the "Solar Death Ray," a demolished house sculpture, a gas tank bass instrument, and some seriously big speakers. MAKE 03 - Page 16. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition!

A brief abide by up on the separate Nixie Tube time we posted, here´s some other version sent in from Amanda that RSW made -

"A while ago I constitute a Burroughs B-5853 Nixie tube kicking around in the lab and decided that I should put it to good use. Since I only had one of this size, I wanted to make a separate-digit display out of it. After I saw Jason Harper´s Nixie time gallery, I decided that one digit really could make a cool time.

To add to the excitement, I wanted to be able to PWM the display, allowing smooth fading and ultra sexiness (you know, for the ladies :-P) and allow for further expansion, perhaps via a computer interface. For these reasons, I chose the Microchip PIC16F628 microcontroller, which has an on-board USART and does hardware PWM on one pin. Moreover, I´m already quite experienced making crap with the 16F628, including some other time..." - Link.

Ready.Set.GLOW:

• David Forbes, Nixie-display times ... - Link.
• HOW TO - Powering Nixie Tubes... - Link.
• Single-digit Nixie, Oscilloscope CRT a Weston ... - Link.
• Tiny Nixie time - Link.
• Nixie time gallery - Link.
• Nixie Tube collectors and designers - Link.
• Nixie Build - Link.
• NIXI?-1 - Nixie time - Link.
• Nixie tube watch - Link.
• Nixie propeller time - Link.
• Ryan Brooks´s 6502 Nixie time - Link.
• Nixie tube - tube time - Link.