Comments on: Dekatron kitchen timer

By: Tomasito

Tomasito — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:38:58 +0000

That is pretty cool. I love this kind of old tube projects.

Look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumlock_ANITA_calculator

A calculator wich uses dekatrons and nixie tubes. It’s the first electronic calculator!

By: McMike

McMike — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:25:58 +0000

Ace! I’ve got a whole box of those damn things but up to now i’ve not had a clue what to do with them all…but now I know!

By: ragnar

ragnar — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:37:00 +0000

Never heard of them before, funny enough. But very nice project!

By: nubie

nubie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:18:59 +0000

I just can’t believe that this hasn’t been used as the entire floor of a level in a video game!

At least one of the Myst games, or Uru.

It would be pretty cool to have a level that is inside one of these (another genre that hasn’t taken off, the ‘honey I shrunk the kids’ game).

Very awesome, makes me wish I had one of those timers.

By: Ziegler

Ziegler — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:21:16 +0000

dekatron in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojWIkZt2UZc

By: morcheeba

morcheeba — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:25:59 +0000

That’s cool… I’d never heard of a dekatron. It’s like a stepper motor, except that it uses gas instead of a rotor. And it glows, which is always a plus :-)

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:19:44 +0000

Really cool!

So unique!

By: spiffed

spiffed — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:03:48 +0000

In http://www.flickr.com/photos/tubetime/3417304404/ you can see that they’ve mounted the PIC to the top side of the board by routing a large recess in the middle, bending the legs flat, and soldering.

By: twistedsymphony

twistedsymphony — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:00:02 +0000

I’d never heard of a dekatron before, but it looks pretty damn cool. I’m surprised more people don’t use them to count the seconds on a nixie clock