Nixie tubes, electromagnets, levitation, and microcontrollers — this project has “Hackaday” written all over it! Time Flies: Levitating Nixie Clock comes from [Tony Adams], and uses a lot of ...

There’s no doubting the appeal of Nixie tubes. The play of the orange plasma around the cathodes through the mesh anode and onto the glass envelope can be enchanting, and the stacking of the symbols ...

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 ...

If like me you are a fan of Nixie tubes and Nixie tube clock’s you are sure to be interested in a new Kickstarter campaign launched this week. To raise pledges for the new modern take on the retro ...

Electronics designer Marcin Saj with over 15 years experience in the electronics industry has taken to Kickstarter this month to launch his new versatile nixie clock. Based on the Arduino platform and ...

Nixie tubes, otherwise known as numicators, were hawt stuff back in the pre-LED/LCD 60s if you wanted to display numerals in their digital form. Now do-it-yourselfers are creating retro clocks using ...

While the Nixie Machine II may use one of the oldest digital technologies around for displaying the time, the rest of the hardware is decidedly modern, with integrated Wi-Fi that allows the clock to ...

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 ...