Nixie tubes live in a cool box
posted Nov 13th 2010 9:54am by Mike Szczysfiled under: arduino hacks, contests
This set of four Nixie tubes display the number of people following bildr on Twitter. That’s neat; it uses an Arduino and some open source driver boards. But what caught out eye is the enclosure. The image above shows only half, but when assembled it’s a nice little cube that keeps the insides safe. This was laser cut using the Ponoko service and kicks off a design contest. Come up with the best idea for using 4 Nixies, their drivers, and $50 worth of Ponoko’s services and they’ll give you the materials to make it happen.
Cool stuff! Now let’s all follow him so he has to add another digit…