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You can also get a VFD with a built-in serial controller.



I got the impression that those serial controlled VFDs weren't pixel addressable, meaning that you could only send text to them. The page you linked to shows an image on one screen, but that it an image stored on the controller and displayed by sending the controller an text stream to trigger the display.
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