{"id":607,"date":"2014-02-19T09:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T09:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/?p=607"},"modified":"2022-04-12T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:30:43","slug":"hacking-an-old-raf-nimrod-control-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/19\/hacking-an-old-raf-nimrod-control-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking an old RAF Nimrod control panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bought one of these things off eBay for around \u00a335:<\/p>\n

\"nimrod<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t know what it’s for. Probably some sort of comms \/ radio display. The reason I jumped on it – behind that dark window are 8 of these alphanumeric LED displays:<\/p>\n

\"nimrod<\/a><\/p>\n

These little displays are usually around the \u00a315-20 each. Loads of LEDs:<\/p>\n

\"Loads<\/a><\/p>\n

And a little controller chip on the back of them:<\/p>\n

\"...<\/a><\/p>\n

Little but not simple (!) – check out all the gubbins [that’s a technical term] in there:<\/p>\n

\"OK,<\/a><\/p>\n

Before trying to get the whole panel working, I hooked up an Arduino to a single display to get it working:<\/p>\n

\"nimrod<\/a><\/p>\n

Once you’ve sussed out how to get one display working, figuring out what the connections to a full display panel should be is a lot easier, even if it doesn’t look it:<\/p>\n

\"Too.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"nimrod<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Success!<\/p>\n

\"Got<\/a><\/p>\n

Getting an expensive piece of ex-RAF equipment to say naughty words is the sort of thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve got the thing working, I’m not sure what I want to use it for. Maybe a new trip computer for the Landrover… we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bought one of these things off eBay for around \u00a335: Don’t know what it’s for. Probably some sort of comms \/ radio display. The reason I jumped on it –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-electronics-and-hackery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}