[simpits-tech] Vector displays...

[Matt Bailey]

Yep, that is COOL. I have been chatting with a cockpit builder in
Czechoslovakia who passed a couple of links to me on how to use an
oscilloscope tube with plain old VGA, but as I recall the circuits were
a little more complex. This could make spectacular looking old-school
monochrome weather radars on old general aviation pits, also. In the
true spirit of hacking, there are also folks who have taken TVs and
converted them to oscilloscopes.....just for the sake of making a thing
do stuff it was NOT originally designed to do, I suppose. :)

I'm very interested in using the oscilloscope guts to drive other types
of CRTs.....I realize some circuit modification to the old scope may be
needed, but it would be great to drive the CRTs that are in original
aviation equipment. I have a Bendix radar I would like to drive, and
driving the tube in a Stormscope would be really cool also.

I still have a sneaking suspicion that it would not be that difficult
to feed an unmodified weather radar the required signals, I just don't
know what those signals might be!

Matt

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:50:29 -0800 (PST)
geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:

> Here's a perfect solution for the RWR and TEWS users in the audience:
> 
> http://hackaday.com/2014/02/19/vector-display-output-on-an-oscilliscope/
> 
> He's actually doing it from a VGA port!
> 
> g.
> 
> 



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