[John Clarke Mills] has pieced together this tastefully done Victorian style Nixie tube clock. He picked up a kit from nixietube.com and an old clock off of eBay. A little bit of elbow grease and solder later, he has this very nice mantle piece. Well done.
For those unfamiliar, a Nixie tube is used for displaying numbers or letters. They are a glass tube, filled with a gas (usually neon). There are metal structures inside that glow when electricity is applied. First widely used in the early sixties, Nixies were pretty much replaced when LED technology got cheap.
We noticed that nixietube.com was down, so you might also check TubeClock.com and neonixie.com for kits.
If you’re looking for more inspiration, read about the Nixie counter clock, Russian vfd, and the 6502 driven Nixie clock all previously on Hack a Day.
[via Retro Thing]
this is a true thing of beauty.
simple,basic classic beauty.
For those of you on the go, a Nixie wrist watch
http://www.amug.org/%7Ejthomas/watch.html
I love nixie tubes… building a clock is on my long list of projects that I want to do but don’t have the time. I wish I could think of some other cool uses for these things beyond a clock though…. about the only thing I can think of is maybe a weather station?
I think my Grandma had, and my mom has, that exact model of clock.
She’d kill me if I took the guts out, though.
Victorian style is very beautiful for as simple and straight forward. Nixie tubes always have a industrial feel to them. Makes for a very cool mix.
This blog helped me in narrowing down some issues with the latest release candidate, Why do they always leave out vital information when they release a new version? It may be minor to them but not for us! I’m sure we’re not alone either.
Your blog has helped, thank you. I have found it a couple of times now and will undoubtedly take a note of it. You actually may want to update wordpress as there’s a completely new variant obtainable at this point!
Your blog has helped, thanks a lot. I’ve run into it a couple of times now and will probably take a note of it. You may would like to update wordpress as there’s a brand new release readily available at this moment!