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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Before dot-matrix displays took over the known world, Nixie tubes — glass lightbulbs containing light-up tubes for the digits 0-9 — were the best way of displaying changing numbers. One designer had ...