Howard Constantine has unveiled a new Nixie Clock Kit he has created that is now available to back from $115 via Kickstarter and provides a unique row of nixie tubes that have been backlit by RGB LEDS ...
If you are in the market for something a little more original as a timepiece for your home or office you may be interested in a new creation by Howard Constantine in the form of the Nixie Clock III.
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, ...
Love ’em or hate ’em, Nixies and the retro clocks they adorn are here to stay. At least until the world’s stock of surplus Soviet tubes is finally depleted, that is. The glow discharge tubes were last ...
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 ...
Proving that an old design cast in concrete can indeed be changed, [Hans Jørgen Grimstad] has revisited his Nixie clock from 2008, cleaned up the electronics and packaging, and turned it into a kit.
First off a brief explanation of what a nixie tube is: 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 with a gas ...
What’s a Tea rup, you ask? Oh…Tear Up. As opposed to Tear Down. If taking something apart is a teardown, surely putting something together is a tearup? With that out of the way, enjoy this photo essay ...