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BINA-VIEW Controller Project Pt.1
🕑 Added 2025-02-14 23:51:56 +0000 UTCI'm revisiting an old friend - the one of a kind IEE BINA-VIEW display - with a new project to create a dedicated control unit for the display that is period correct for the early 1960's and ultra cool. Here is where it starts. Enjoy!
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Oliver Prosperi
Amazing project!!! Looking forward to it!!
Dan Beach
Yes, I think you're right. The IEE label got me. Either style was "advanced" for their time, though the BINA-VIEW was considerably more complex. Looking forward to following your build.
adrian
If I'd have built it in 1961 I'd have had to use Lego. Didn't get a soldering iron until I was about 8.
Fran Blanche
Were they BINA-VIEW displays? I'd be surprised - the more affordable projection displays were very common in the 60's - NASA used them for all the boards and consoles, etc.
Markintosh
Wow-can’t wait to see more! The vintage IEE logo would look good in the graphics of your control box! This is gonna be cool, Fran!
Dan Beach
Love it! In the early '60s, I built a 10-second countdown display using a pair of these. We used it on camera at the head of programs we were taping at WGBH-TV, Boston, along with a simultaneous "beep" tone, up until the 3-second mark. (Pre SMPTE-code days!)
Zygmunt Dean
Oo yes! This is gonna be seriously cool, classic Fran Lab stuff! 😊 Since the BINA-VIEW text seems to be in some form of Gill Sans, will that do for the graphics on the finished device? One of the narrower interpretations, perhaps?
Art Yerkes
gonna be neat. the original bina-view video was inspiration to try designing an n-bit function mechanism in openscad.
Dennis Murphey
my first project view, Wow!!!!! Love the Quad Pad and your dialogue is wonderful. Dang. D
David Peaker
I've been waiting for a project featuring that case since you showed it in a vault video. Exciting times indeed!
