/products/arduino/arduino-projects/b/blog/posts/using-a-vacuum-fluorescent-display-vfd-with-a-microcontrollerTable of Contents Introduction Exploring the Display Connecting It Up Arduino Code What Characters are Supported? Summary Introduction Sometimes, it’s nice to use a luxury display such as a VFD! This short blog post describes how to geten-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/products/arduino/arduino-projects/b/blog/posts/using-a-vacuum-fluorescent-display-vfd-with-a-microcontrollerSun, 17 Sep 2023 20:08:28 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9115ea66-16ca-4066-9ae5-a2f3c5ee9219dougw1<p>Cool display.</p> <p>I designed&nbsp;a VFD peripheral&nbsp;- driven by an 8085 back around 1982. It was bright enough to work in a car. The data acquisition part of the system used an LSI11 to monitor fuel consumption. Note the fancy tape deck to store data.</p> <p><img src="/resized-image/__size/1280x720/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9115ea66-16ca-4066-9ae5-a2f3c5ee9219/DAS.jpg" alt=" " /></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=26879&AppID=149&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/products/arduino/arduino-projects/b/blog/posts/using-a-vacuum-fluorescent-display-vfd-with-a-microcontrollerSun, 17 Sep 2023 15:43:59 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9115ea66-16ca-4066-9ae5-a2f3c5ee9219genebren1<p>A fun and informative blog on VFDs.&nbsp; I have acquired a few VFD over the&nbsp;years, but as of yet, I still have not played with any of them.&nbsp; This needs to go back on to my to do&nbsp;list.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=26879&AppID=149&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">