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Nixies and VFDs are great displays, but when using them you've got to deal with some fairly high voltages, at least for the micro projects we see on Hack a Day. Luckily, there's another ancient technology that can be driven at tiny voltages. [Kenneth] put up a great tutorial on Numitron tubes to show the Internet how to get these guys working. Numitron tubes are like Nixies, but instead of the … [Read more...]
If you're like [Richard], you've got a few really rare components lying around. Maybe it's a very weird micro or a really tiny CRT, but eventually you've got to build something with these parts. When [Richard] decided to put some ITS1A neon display tubes to use, he fell back to the old standby - a really awesome clock. Unlike the lowly Nixie tube, the ITS1A tube is weird. It's a neon … [Read more...]
[Matt Evans] achieves a total win with his Nixie clock. Not only does he have the benefit of the retro display hardware, but he really catches our eye with the enclosure he built for it. The project had its genesis when he came across a set of the Nixie Tubes in a surplus store. This was back in 2007, and with parts in hand he built the high-voltage driver circuit and a control board. The … [Read more...]
[radmeck] on the ez-robot.com forums came up with a great use for Nixie tubes. Instead of using Nixies for clocks, or indicating values, he used them as robot eyes. He used the arduNIX Arduino-powered Nixie tube driver to power the tubes. [radmeck] was very impressed with the arduNIX kit. The kit is able to drive eight Nixies or eighty neon bulbs, but there's no word from [radmeck] on … [Read more...]
Someone sent in a tip that pointed us to this Magic: The Gathering forum thread where a user named [DistortedDesigns] made a life counter for Magic: The Gathering out of Nixie tubes. While there's not many details for this build, it's just too cool to be forgotten in a single forum. The project began by etching some plexiglas. There's some earlier examples of [DistortedDesigns]' work that look … [Read more...]
[Mure] wrote in to let us know he has put the finishing touches on the second iteration of his Warm Tube Nixie clock. We featured his original creation here last year, and while many things remain the same, he has still found a few things that he was able to improve on. The first notable feature is the new real time clock. Instead of using a discrete crystal to keep time and a temperature … [Read more...]
Maker [Jeffrey Gough] was recently asked to construct a set of badges for the TROOPERS11 IT security conference held in Heidelberg last month. The badges were to reflect the overall theme of this year's conference - personal progression, education, and striving to become better IT security professionals. To do this, he designed a badge that tracked a conference attendee's participation in various … [Read more...]
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