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A wonderful Christmas, and a safe and happy and amazing 2024

Paul Backhouse
Dec 12, 2023
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Enhanced Robies

Each has 3 Arduino Unos for Sensory and Wireless, Command and Control, Vocabulary and Speech. I think the vintage tech “Narrator” chips suit them.

The 37-way emulator and analyser boxes running behind stepped in as extras. They are part of my TD700 plasma project.

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A Tale of Two Plasmas

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July 11, 2023
A Tale of Two Plasmas

My efforts to persuade two early 1970’s Burroughs gas plasma display panels to work. In 1971 the Burroughs Corporation of Detroit announced Neon-based Self Scan gas plasma panels as an innovative successor to cathode ray tube technologies. The Self Scans required less power, had no deflection coils, had simplified electronic…

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Dec 15, 2023Liked by Paul Backhouse

Thanks for building this amazing stuff, Paul! 🙏 Loved it.

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