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A project log for Nixie's clock from sparepart

building a Nixies from scratchy board

philiphili 07/23/2014 at 13:430 Comments

Hi, this project is a gift to a friend. I m building him a nixie clock with some specs.

- Time

- Alarm

- Color (Led + UV reactive paint + eventually bar graph in 9)

- Wifi (openwrt backed on a wr703n)

- Video (optional)

Right now i received the board, cleaned it ( it was removed from an old computer I guess, cut cable parts missing), and tested it. So far the k155 seem ok and the nixie seem's to not have been domaged by time.

The next steps are :

- baking the arduino code with the right wiring ( 7*4 it means 28 I/O) so I m waiting for the i/o extender on i2c. I ll have to check the RTC also on i2C

- ntp time over serial

- flasing openwrt on a new wr703n, still have two spare at rev 1.5

- lots of toggle switch 

- encasing : found a openlab with a lasercutter , need to design part pattern and mecanism.

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