Sometimes you find something that looks really cool but doesn’t work, but that’s an opportunity to give it a new life. That was the case when [Davis DeWitt] got his hands on a weird Soviet-era box ...
The Nixie Power Click, a booster Click board from MIKROE, provides the high voltage needed to power Nixie tube (cold cathode display) shields. This board features the LM2577 step-up voltage regulator, ...
If you’re a fan of things retro and an electronics do-it-youselfer, this might might be just the thing for you – it’s a kit that lets you built your own clock, that displays the time using wonderfully ...
The revival and production of nixie tubes for modern projects is a fascinating journey into the past, where technology and nostalgia intersect. The original nixie tubes, electronic devices used for ...
Looking for something a little more unique as a desktop clock? This retro Nixie Tube desk clock might just be the perfect thing. If you have a few hours to spare and a soldering iron to hand, you ...
Which Nixie tube clocks are best? Recently, using clocks that tell time using old-fashioned vacuum tubes (Nixie tubes) has become more popular. For anyone who loves to see the guts of technology, a ...
My current hobby project involves creating a 21st Century incarnation of a super-tasty 21-segment Victorian display technology. I will explain more in a moment, but first... I don’t know about you, ...
[Limpkin] has an idea for a project that uses a lot of IN-9 Nixie tubes. Where a Nixie tube clock would only use four or six tubes, [Limpkin] is looking at fifty IN-9 bar graph Nixie tubes. These ...
Nixie tubes, the cold cathode displays which use wire mesh to display glowing numerals or other information, are pretty cool in their own right. But you know what’s even cooler? Using nixie tubes and ...
The gentle orange glow of a Nixie display tube has held a special place in the hearts of DIY device builders for as long as I can remember but they seem to be undergoing something of a mainstream ...
Which Nixie tube clocks are best? Recently, using clocks that tell time using old-fashioned vacuum tubes (Nixie tubes) has become more popular. For anyone who loves to see the guts of technology, a ...