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!
Comments
Amazing project!!! Looking forward to it!!
Oliver Prosperi
2025-02-16 22:28:15 +0000 UTCYes, 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.
Dan Beach
2025-02-16 14:48:29 +0000 UTCIf 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.
adrian
2025-02-16 13:50:51 +0000 UTCWere 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.
Fran Blanche
2025-02-15 22:09:15 +0000 UTCWow-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!
Markintosh
2025-02-15 22:02:51 +0000 UTCLove 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!)
Dan Beach
2025-02-15 18:30:20 +0000 UTCOo 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?
Zygmunt Dean
2025-02-15 17:32:36 +0000 UTCgonna be neat. the original bina-view video was inspiration to try designing an n-bit function mechanism in openscad.
Art Yerkes
2025-02-15 11:03:35 +0000 UTCmy first project view, Wow!!!!! Love the Quad Pad and your dialogue is wonderful. Dang. D
Dennis Murphey
2025-02-15 00:39:02 +0000 UTCI've been waiting for a project featuring that case since you showed it in a vault video. Exciting times indeed!
David Peaker
2025-02-15 00:21:59 +0000 UTC
