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…
Lets get this guy 10k followers…
i like the case but im wondering why he didn’t just use arduinix
lol i was gonna suggest we surpass 9999 to find out what happens
@jeditalian but that’s over nine t….ah fck it.
Great use of laser cut parts to make a solid block of a case.
Please post his twitter handle here so it’ll be easier to get him to 10000!
looks lovely!
@bildr <– twitter handle
@zool, I tried to use the arduinix but they never responded to my emails and all the kits were sold out.