STATUS: In Progress

Chibitron
Electrostatic CRT Driver

Chibitron is an open-source electrostatic CRT driver specifically designed to run old oscilloscope/radar/military style Cathode Ray Tubes with vector graphics. The goal is designed to make a universal platform for any of these commonly available display tubes, and make any graphics imaginable on it.

Currently, it is capable of running a tube in X/Y mode, Z-axis control is current a work in progress. Seen on the right is a P11-phosphor tube showing some of the graphics the tube is capable of. There are no pixels, the display is truly drawing those lines as you see it.

The main project link with schematics, layouts, and gerber files can be found here: github.com/thinkpad4by3/chibitron

Board Design

  • Board design is a completely clean-sheet engineered design, addressing many of the fallbacks from other similar projects

    Exact specifics and detailed circuit information are all available in the github link:


  • github.com/thinkpad4by3/chibitron