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Geert's clock. WARNING!

Geert's clock

This circuit is directly connected to the mains. This means that all metal parts in this circuit carry a lethal voltage with respect to ground. Home of the World's First Nixie Tube Propeller Clock. Welcome. Sean Voisen » Bluenumi Clock. Bluenumi began with the idea of creating an easy to assemble open-source kit clock that had nixie tube aesthetics, but without the associated cost or potentially dangerous high voltage.

Sean Voisen » Bluenumi Clock

The result is a small, functional, and beautiful desktop clock featuring 100% through-hole electronic components that looks like a nixie clock, but can be built at a fraction of the price. The Bluenumi is available for sale as a kit or in limited quantity pre-assembled on Etsy. Features “Retro” incandescent glowing display, featuring Russian IV-9 numitron tubesA DS1307 real time clock with backup battery for accurate timekeeping and alarm memory preservation during loss of powerBlue LED underlighting for each digit, with pre-programmed fading light patternsProgrammable alarm12- or 24-hour operating mode with AM/PM indicator lightEasy display blanking for nighttime use and tube life preservation100% open source hardware and softwareArduino programming compatibility using standard TTL serial Photos.

Threeneuron's Pile o'Poo. Zegar na ATMega16, współpraca z DCF. Projektek. 2x35W (RMS) audio amplifier, with full protection Simple, Analog Laser Show Build and/or use at your own risk !!!

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Laser Show with Microcontroller Levitron "Antigravity" device Time Spring optical illusion. Nixie Stuff « Threeneuron's Pile o'Poo. Animated .GIF Courtesy of Mike’s Electric Stuff Nixie Basics: Nixies were once the most popular digital display technology in use.

Nixie Stuff « Threeneuron's Pile o'Poo

The coming of LEDs put a big crimp in their business, but at that time (70′s) LEDs weren’t bright enough to replace them. The LCD and VFD displays, however, proved quite readable in bright environments, and killed the nixie business. (click on image to enlarge) A nixie works in a similar manner as an LED. LED’s work, the same way. Nothing Turns-ON Instantaneously: (click on image to enlarge) Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic. The above shows my home-built digital clock.

Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic

It uses Nixie-tubes for readout. In contrast to most other nixie-clocks being built these days, my clock does not use any transistor or IC for driving the tubes. Instead, the driving logic is built from neon lamps, together with resistors, capacitors and silicon diodes. The project started in 2002, when our university library was selling old outdated or otherwise superfluous books, and I very cheaply bought the book "Electronic Counting Circuits" by J.B.

Dance, published in 1967, and apparently only ever lent three times by our library, all in 1973. Unfortunately, if one substitutes the neon bulbs that are available in electronics shops nowadays, the circuit doesn't work. Typewriter Museum-Tube Digital Clock. I'm taking a long break from working on the new cabinet for the tube clock.

Typewriter Museum-Tube Digital Clock

Here is the new main chassis. This part will face backwards, and the display chassis (with the hours and minutes units) will be remote and face forward. Wait till you see the cabinet...it'll make sense then. And the underside of the chassisbefore it was complted: This is the remote unit which displays the time, hours and minutes: Sgitheach. Introduction This clock came about after some experiments using simple two electrode neon bulbs in ring counters.

Sgitheach

The initial experiments I hoped would produce a clock where the neon bulbs would both count and display the time; no nixie was intended to be used. I found the large (10 or 12) step counters somewhat cranky and subject to misfiring, or having problems with more than one neon fired in a ring. I then came across a book by J.B. Dance that described ring counters using three electrode trigger tubes. I was then searching (Google) for trigger tube data sheets, trigger tubes in general and, much to my amazement, found a supply of the XC18 trigger tubes in England.

All-Tube Nixie Clock. Finally....it's finished!

All-Tube Nixie Clock

A completely digital clock without any semiconductors. No ICs, no micros, no transistors, not even a diode! The only silicon is in the glass of the 40 glorious electron and Nixie display tubes! So what prompts a person to build such a thing? It's certainly not efficient, nor space-saving. Size...believe it or not, this is about as compact as I could envision the unit: 6" x 10" x 18" The counting modules alone make up the unit's height. Forward of the rear panel are 5 rows of industrial 5963s that make up the flip-flops of the counter modules, which are modified units from a Beckman Frequency Counter circa 1958. Cogwheel Circuit Works. Www.jb-electronics.de - Electronics, Programming and Physics - www.jb-electronics.de.

Welcome to www.jb-electronics.de!

www.jb-electronics.de - Electronics, Programming and Physics - www.jb-electronics.de

On this website you can find interesting information regarding Electronics, Programming and Physics. In the section Electronics you can find Digital Technology (CMOS technology and PIC microcontrollers), as well as circuits with Nixie tubes. In the section Programming I present several programs that I have written in the languages QuickBASIC, freeBASIC and Java. Additionally, you can also find sample scripts concerning the data analysis framework ROOT and math software Maple. B-7971 Character Designer.