The Beginning
My introduction to the world of Nixie tubes and clocks was because of a Steampunk lamp I built for my daughter’s birthday seemed to lack something on it. It was no doubt an interesting ...
There is a disturbing new development in the Nixie community. A few different eBay sellers are stealing the non-creative commons and non-open source designs of legitimate manufacturers and selling ...
Peter Sztojanov Jr. of Steampunk Alchemy shared a link on Facebook yesterday to a few nixieclocks that he's been working on. He did a really great job building them and photographing them and I wanted ...
Bob C. shared a link with me yesterday to a manufacturer that I was not familiar with - GlowingTech. They have about a half dozen finished clocks for sale in addition to complete kits and components. ...
A few days ago, Albert sent in a nice scope clock that he had been working on and wanted to share. It turns out, that he also made some nice nixieclocks too. Check out his work below, in no particular ...
... real passion for restoring old equipment.
Have you ever asked yourself "what made Nixieclocks go before microcontrollers were invented"? If you did, I suppose you came to the conclusion that it was switches, ...
... Walnut clock) and this time we're looking at the other end of the range.
The Nixie Six is a six digit IN-14 clock with compact digits and a whole load of features. The version I have comes in a formed ...
By Nocrotec.com and YanZeYuan 严泽远
Dieter Waechter and YanZeYuan 严泽远 have teamed up to bring us a nice looking kit based on the Chinese QS30-1 nixie tubes. This clock features many of the design elements ...
... brightness
ON/OFF setting
High accurate time control by RTC
Setting Backup by Super capacitor
Many effect
Cathode poisoning prevention
Using tube socket for nixie tube
Has fuse for safety ...
Jürgen from NixieKits.eu is working on a new design for a line level preamplifier. This new device will have the same footprint as his headphone amp and he has been kind enough to share the schematics ...
... the display staying in the same spot continuously. The Nixieclocks are "faders", which means when the numbers are changing, the number that's going is dimmed while the number that's coming is brightened. ...
Peter from Axiris.be clued me in to a software nixie clock that he made. It is a Windows / Linux piece of software that emulates a six digit nixie clock. If you don't want to bring your real nixie clock ...
Okay, tonight we have two new LED clocks to check out. Sure, they're not nixie clocks but they are pretty cool and I think you'll love them.
First up is yanzeyuan's LED matrix clock. This gadget is made ...
It's been a while since we've had a good contest so here is a new one, thanks to the fine folks at NixieKits.eu!
How To Enter To enter, leave a comment in this thread. (Register here: www.tubeclockdb.com/forum/register.html ...
Here is one more creation from the Nocrotec / NixieClocks.de team; this one is a clock based on the beautiful B-5853 tubes. The Burroughs tubes, in my opinion, are the nicest option available for tubes ...
Dieter Wächter of www.nocrotec.com and Claus Urbach of www.nixieclocks.de and www.clausurbach.de, worked together to develop this kit. Hopefully we can expect more from them in the future!
The kit ...
Okay, it has been a while since I’ve done a video review and taken lots of photos of a gadget so let’s jump right in. This is the Manuela_HR end view Nixie clock from NixieKits.eu and this little thing ...
... based on IN-16 Russian Nixie tubes. The tubes are lit from underneath with a blue LED and there is a neon lamp that acts as a negative sign indicator. The temperature sensor is a Dallas DS18S20 on 1, ...
Please Help!
NixieKits.eu is working on an updated Manuela design and this new clock will allow the user to select from a variety of top-view tubes. Jürgen has been working hard on the design and he ...