#nixietube — Public Fediverse posts

How many different cathodes would one need to make a Nixie tube capable of displaying all of the Stargate glyphs?

#AskingForAFriend #Stargate #SG1 #StargateSG1 #electronics #SteamPunk #Nixie #NixieTube

2025 One Hertz Challenge: The Easy Way to Make a Nixie Tube Clock - Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, s... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/2025-one-hertz-challenge-the-easy-way-to-make-a-nixie-tube-clock/ #2025hackadayonehertzchallenge #frequencycounter #clockhacks #nixietube #contests #clock #nixie

I set up the #nixietube clock that my late uncle soldered for me.
His hobby was restoring and collecting old radios.
I guess soldering runs in the family.
#tubeelectronics #Electronics #Vintage

For #printersolstice2425 prompt neon I made a lino block print of four Nixie tubes spelling the word “Neon” on lovely Japanese mulberry paper, 8” x 8”.

Nixie tubes , also known as or cold cathode display, are electronic devices used for displaying letters or numerals or other information using glow discharge. Introduced in 1955, they are prized today for their vintage aesthetics. Inside a glass tube, 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #electronics #NixieTube #neon #sciart #histsci

Hands On With a Giant Nixie Tube https://hackaday.com/2024/10/24/hands-on-with-a-giant-nixie-tube/ #telephoneselector #classichacks #uniselector #nixietube #display #museum #Parts #GPO

Symbolic Nixie Tubes Become Useful For Artistic Purposes https://hackaday.com/2024/10/10/symbolic-nixie-tubes-become-useful-for-artistic-purposes/ #classichacks #nixietube #nixie #in-7 #in7

Symbolic Nixie Tubes Become Useful For Artistic Purposes - When it comes to Nixie tubes, the most common usage these days seems to be in cloc... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/10/symbolic-nixie-tubes-become-useful-for-artistic-purposes/ #classichacks #nixietube #nixie #in-7 #in7

Recreating a Popular Faux-Nixie Clock - There’s a good chance you’ve seen “Nixie clocks” on the Internet that replace the ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/13/recreating-a-popular-faux-nixie-clock/ #microcontrollers #clockhacks #nixieclock #fakenixie #nixietube #clock #ntp #rtc

There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge - Nixie tubes are cool, and hackers like them. Perhaps for those reasons more than a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/theres-already-a-nixie-addon-for-the-2024-supercon-badge/ #hackadaysupercon2024 #simpleadd-on #mischacks #nixietube #contests #nixie

There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge - Nixie tubes are cool, and hackers like them. Perhaps for those reasons more than a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/theres-already-a-nixie-addon-for-the-2024-supercon-badge/ #hackadaysupercon2024 #simpleadd-on #mischacks #nixietube #contests #nixie

There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge - Nixie tubes are cool, and hackers like them. Perhaps for those reasons more than a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/theres-already-a-nixie-addon-for-the-2024-supercon-badge/ #hackadaysupercon2024 #simpleadd-on #mischacks #nixietube #contests #nixie

There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge - Nixie tubes are cool, and hackers like them. Perhaps for those reasons more than a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/theres-already-a-nixie-addon-for-the-2024-supercon-badge/ #hackadaysupercon2024 #simpleadd-on #mischacks #nixietube #contests #nixie

There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge - Nixie tubes are cool, and hackers like them. Perhaps for those reasons more than a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/theres-already-a-nixie-addon-for-the-2024-supercon-badge/ #hackadaysupercon2024 #simpleadd-on #mischacks #nixietube #contests #nixie

There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/theres-already-a-nixie-addon-for-the-2024-supercon-badge/ #hackadaysupercon2024 #SimpleAdd-On #MiscHacks #nixietube #contests #nixie

There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/theres-already-a-nixie-addon-for-the-2024-supercon-badge/ #hackadaysupercon2024 #SimpleAdd-On #MiscHacks #nixietube #contests #nixie

Random Number Generator is a Blast from the Past - Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/02/random-number-generator-is-a-blast-from-the-past/ #linearfeedbackshiftregister #classichacks #nixietube #nixie #prng #rng

💡🔢 A brand new addition is this Wang 700B programmable calculator from 1969 with an astonishing 32 Nixie tube displays 😍🤩. More details to come once we get to know it better.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #retro #europee #MundoRetro #wang #calculator #nixietube #nixie #retrotech #programmablecalculator #60s #60er #wanglaboratories

[Dalibor Farný]’s Enormous Nixies Light Up Contemporary Art Museum - Nixie tubes come in many shapes and sizes, but in only one color: the warm orange ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/dalibor-farnys-enormous-nixies-light-up-contemporary-art-museum/ #artinstallation #daliborfarny #hiroshima #nixietube #science #art

Turning Soviet Electronics Into A #NixieTube Clock

https://hackaday.com/2023/08/27/turning-soviet-electronics-into-a-nixie-tube-clock/

Conductive Gel Has Potential - There are some technologies first imagined in the Star Trek universe have already ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/conductive-gel-has-potential/ #chemistryhacks #conductive #mineraloil #xanthangum #nixietube #solution #gel

Nixie Display Module Is Addressable Via SPI - There are plenty of SPI interface screens on the market, but few of them have the ... - https://hackaday.com/2022/12/03/nixie-display-module-is-addressable-via-spi/ #classichacks #nixietubes #nixietube #pic #spi

2022 Sci-Fi Contest: Nixie Calculator is Resplendent in Walnut Enclosure - The Nixie tube is one of the most popular display technologies amongst the hacker ... - https://hackaday.com/2022/04/14/2022-sci-fi-contest-nixie-calculator-is-resplendent-in-walnut-enclosure/ #2022sci-ficontest #calculator #nixietubes #nixietube #contests

Upcycled Nixie Clock Fit For A Friend - Building a clock from parts is a right of passage for makers, and often represents... - https://hackaday.com/2022/04/07/upcycled-nixie-clock-fit-for-a-friend/ #clockhacks #nixieclock #nixietube #arduino #nixie #in-4

Relay-Driven Nixie Clock Gets You To Stop Scrolling - We don’t often get a Tips line submission where the “Subject” line auto-translates... - https://hackaday.com/2022/01/30/relay-driven-nixie-clock-gets-you-to-stop-scrolling/ #nixietubeclock #clockhacks #nixieclock #nixietubes #nixietube #nixie #relay

1320984756.
What is that sequence of digits?
"Nixie Tubes and Clock: long before there were 7 segment LED displays there was the Nixie- cold cathode tubes with a wire mesh and 10 cathodes shaped in the form of numerals 0-9 that illuminate through neon glow discharge. [...] The “Numeric Indicator eXperimental 1” or NIX 1 was introduced in 1955 by Burroughs Corporation and manufactured until the 1990s. [...] the Russian version called the ИH-14A where the numbers are stacked so the front symbols obscure each lighted cathode minimally: from back to front 1320984756."
#neon #nixie #nixietube #nixieclock #physics #physicsfun #physicstoy #emissionspectra #excitation #spectra #breakdownvoltage #paschenslaw #glowdischarge #glowdischargetube #highvoltage #science #scienceisawesome

1320984756.
What is that sequence of digits?
"Nixie Tubes and Clock: long before there were 7 segment LED displays there was the Nixie- cold cathode tubes with a wire mesh and 10 cathodes shaped in the form of numerals 0-9 that illuminate through neon glow discharge. [...] The “Numeric Indicator eXperimental 1” or NIX 1 was introduced in 1955 by Burroughs Corporation and manufactured until the 1990s. [...] the Russian version called the ИH-14A where the numbers are stacked so the front symbols obscure each lighted cathode minimally: from back to front 1320984756."
#neon #nixie #nixietube #nixieclock #physics #physicsfun #physicstoy #emissionspectra #excitation #spectra #breakdownvoltage #paschenslaw #glowdischarge #glowdischargetube #highvoltage #science #scienceisawesome

Dice Rolls From the Beginning of Time - Generating random numbers might seem like a trivial task, that is until the number... - https://hackaday.com/2022/01/05/dice-rolls-from-the-beginning-of-time/ #randomnumbergenerator #nixietube #science #prng #trng

Binary Clock Lets the Nixies Glow - We’re not here to talk about another clock. Okay, we are, but the focus isn’t abou... - https://hackaday.com/2021/08/28/binary-clock-lets-the-nixies-glow/ #2021hackadayprize #thehackadayprize #nixietubeclock #nixiedriver #clockhacks #nixietubes #custompcb #nixietube #timepiece #clock #nixie

No-Nixie Nixie Clock - Over on [Techmoan]’s YouTube channel he’s excited about a new gadget that finally ... - https://hackaday.com/2021/04/20/no-nixie-nixie-clock/ #nixietubealternative #clockhacks #ipsdisplay #nixieclock #nixietube

Nixie Shot Timer Adds Useful Elegance to Espresso Machine - Once you’ve ground the beans and tamped the grounds just so, pulling the perfect shot of espresso co... - https://hackaday.com/2021/03/26/nixie-shot-timer-adds-useful-elegance-to-espresso-machine/ #electromagneticfield #espressoshottimer #arduinohacks #arduinonano #mischacks #nixietube #arduino

Steampunk Geiger Counter is a Mix of Art and Science - It took nearly a year for [Chris Crocker-White] to assemble this glorious mahogany and brass Geiger ... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/07/10/steampunk-geiger-counter-is-a-mix-of-art-and-science/ #ionizingradiation #geigercounter #classichacks #nixietube #steampunk #dekatron

BCD To I2C: Turning A Nixie Counter Into Whatever You Want It To Be - Whenever a project calls for displaying numbers, a 7-segment display is the classic and straightfo... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/03/28/bcd-to-i2c-turning-a-counter-into-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/ #nixieclock #mischacks #nixietube #pcbdesign #counter #nixie #bcd

Tiny Cube Hosts a Hearty Tube - Tiny PCBAs and glowy VFD tubes are like catnip to a Hackaday writer, so when we saw [hamster]’s Tube... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/10/25/tiny-cube-hosts-a-hearty-tube/ #switchingpowersupply #boostconverter #highvoltage #minibadge #nixietube #hardware #add-on #badge #nixie #cons

Web Interface Controls Nixie Tube Clock - We love our clocks around here and we love nixie tubes as well. The combination of the two almost ... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/05/05/web-interface-controls-nixie-tube-clock/ #nixietubeclock #clockhacks #nixieclock #nixietube #esp8266 #webui

Arduino Shield Makes Driving Nixies Easy - Nixie tubes are adored by hackers across the world for their warm glow that recalls an age of bitter... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/04/04/arduino-shield-makes-driving-nixies-easy/ #arduinoshield #classichacks #nixiedriver #nixieclock #nixietube #arduino #nixie