Comments on: Bottled Nixie clock

By: Wraith

Wraith — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:11:56 +0000

very nice…

By: A.J. Franzman

A.J. Franzman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:11:46 +0000

@conundrum:
At least three POV or “propeller” clocks using nixie tubes have been made, that I’m aware of (but not in glass jars). The whole point of moving the tube is to simulate multiple tubes using only one, so why would you want “a row of” them?

One design that I’m aware of, which I’m not sure has ever been built, used two nixies in a “disc” configuration, with one tube of the rare inverted display format, so numbers could be shown upright at both the top and bottom of the circle. The other nixie POV clocks I’ve seen were of the edge-viewed, cylindrical configuration and used only a single tube.

By: mjrippe

mjrippe — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:51:32 +0000

Hey folks, this clock was built by my friend Karol in Poland. The translation is a bit poor, especially that “Lord Charles” bit. I think it means “the patience of a saint”. Anyhow, [crazy_physic] helped with the programming of the clock while Karol did the actual building. Karol has made some other very nice clocks, but I agree that this is the most ingenious!

By: bobdole

bobdole — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:30:48 +0000

@richard:

IR doesn’t pass through glass well.

By: draeath

draeath — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:45:16 +0000

But we did start the resulting fire…. :P

By: arduino fanboy

arduino fanboy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:55:10 +0000

We didn’t start the flame war.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:27:13 +0000

if overheating wasn’t a problem, another alternative control mechanism could be infra-red, which of course provides an opportunity for an arduino fanbios/haters flamewar…
*ducks and runs*

By: CollinstheClown

CollinstheClown — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:47:34 +0000

I’ll take one!

By: jubes

jubes — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:51:41 +0000

Very nice indeed. Use reed switches, some form of digital pot setup and a battery in the neck and that’d make one sweet, portable (and possibly water-tight) clock!

By: Ryan Leach

Ryan Leach — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:05:31 +0000

Hope its not battery powered that would be annoying having to replace it!

By: cantido

cantido — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:54:56 +0000

really nice. It would be even better if he could work in the idea from that alarm pillow a couple days ago and replace the buttons with an accelerometer. Then maybe use the neck of the bottle to hold a battery?

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:39:42 +0000

Really quite nice.

great job!

By: Drew G

Drew G — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:53:24 +0000

that’s awesome, now I’d like to see it without the buttons and power cords

By: mamut

mamut — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:25:12 +0000

Nice to see that somebody from hackaday found something on elektroda:) Greetings from Poland;)

By: conundrum

conundrum — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:25:06 +0000

10 out of 10 for ingenuity. Now what I’d like to see is someone make a “POV nixie clock” using a row of nixies on a spinning rotor. In a glass jar. :)

Maybe someone can make a “Borg Cube” of neons with some really ingenious driver circuit and use a 3-D array of them in a glass jar.