There is also another nice technology – edge-lit Plexiglas. You can engrave numbers on a piece of Plexiglas, attach LED or a light bulb at the edge, and the engraved parts will scatter the light. It looks cool but it’s hard to make a Plexiglas sheet that will be thin enough....
He loves the style and functionality of the Nixie tube clock and wanted to build one of his own, but the price point in today’s market was a deal-breaker. As an engineer, his passion is to solve problems, so he began researching how to make a Nixie tube clock. He just knew there...
You can just about see that on this Wikimedia photo of a counting nixie tube.Screenshot: If you like nixies but don't want to go to the trouble and expense of building your own retro counter or clock, check out the nixie widgets and apps you can download for your smartphone. Here I...
For busy people, keeping track of all the tasks on your to-do list can be a daunting task in itself. Luckily there’s software to help you keep organized, but it’s always nice to have a physical artifact as well. Inspired by some beautiful nixie clock designs, [Bertrand Fan] decided...
The microcontroller is in a socket for easy replacement. The RGB LEDs make it possible to produce different color lighting under the tubes, user selectable. Just press & hold the led color button. An alphanumeric Nixie clock using B7971 nixies with RGB led lighting. The enclosure is plexiglass...
Unless, of course, you have an electronic alarm clock with a VFD. Typically colored green, these digital displays are bright and clear enough to see in darkness (or full sunlight) without straying an inch from your pillow. Although VFDs have been widely replaced by LCDs in applications such ...
Keep in mind that it takes a very large amount of radiation to cause radiation sickness, not something a fiestaware plate or even a radium painted clock could ever produce. However, a Coolidge tube is certainly capable of generating very intense radiation!
Windows XP had a very simple way of doing this, MS decided to make lives difficult for IT folks in Windows 7. Annesays October 1, 2011 at 11:29 pm For some reason, my log on screen just turned black. No background, nothing, just black. I went into those folders for the login bac...