First off a brief explanation of what a nixie tube is:<br><br>Nixie tubes are tube that were used in numeric displays in the 60's and 70's. They look like vacuum tubes but they are actually filled ...

Nixie tubes, while built during the vacuum tube era of the mid-20th century, still exist in a niche among hackers. It’s quite the task to get them up and running due to a number of quirks, so getting ...

There are a few words in the electrical engineering lexicon that will perk any hardware hacker’s ears. The first of course is “Nixie tubes” with their warm cold war era ambiance and nostalgia inducing ...

If you are considering purchasing a Nixie tube clock kit you may be interested in a new Arduino project published by Doug Domke to the Hackster.io website this week providing full instructions on how ...

MAKE’s got three different DIY kits that you can buy to build your own Nixie Tube clock. If you’re not familiar with Nixie tubes, you’re obviously not reading us often enough. You can buy your own kit ...

Not so long ago, Nixie tubes were the height of digital display technology sophistication. Not so long ago, Nixie tubes were the height of digital display technology sophistication. My chum Frank ...

So, a LONG time ago (ok, 2 years), I got into my head the idea of making a nixie clock that was as simple a design as possible. There were (and still are) a lot of steampunk style clocks out there, ...

Can you throw any light on the topic as to which Nixie tube-based digital clock is officially recognized as the world’s first such beast? This is the first that I’ve heard of Thomas Bromley, who was ...

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 ...