Introduction

Futaba Corporation is recognized as a world leader in the manufacturing of flat panel Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFD), VFD modules, field emission displays (FED) and industrial and hobby radio control systems. The world comes into contact with Futaba products every day in applications such as:

-Electronic readouts on automotive instrumentation

-Appliance Controls

-Audio/video equipment

-Home Entertainment

-Business machines

-Point-of-sale terminals

-Industrial process controllers

-Test/measurement equipment

-Remote controls for industrial, commercial and hobby industry

Vendors that OEM the futaba products: MSI Media Live,Hyper HMC-2K53A, ....(please add)

Futaba dm-140gink Demo VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display)

The DM-140 GINK module is a controlled by a Weltrend WT65F5 USB Micro controller. The Pluto guys seems to have this device working see http://plutohome.com/support/index.php?section=packageDownload&pkid=619

If you don't have any USB port 3 problems you should see this in your hardware list as two devices, the VFD and the panel buttons

Besides VFD the module also includes 801.11 B/G usb device Ralink chipset RT2571WF Drivers for the WLAN device can be found at:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads

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