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 ...

When finished, the Symphony will hang on a wall like an animated picture. It will boast two clocks showing dual time (one London, the other Scotland — don’t ask!). When finished, the Symphony will ...

Can you throw any light on the topic as to which Nixie tube-based digital clock is officially recognized as the world’s first such beast? This is the first that I’ve heard of Thomas Bromley, who was ...

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 ...

There are a few words in the electrical engineering lexicon that will perk any hardware hacker’s ears. The first of course is “Nixie tubes” with their warm cold war era ambiance and nostalgia inducing ...

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 ...

Looking for something a little more unique as a desktop clock? This retro Nixie Tube desk clock might just be the perfect thing. If you have a few hours to spare and a soldering iron to hand, you ...

Nixie Tub Clock ($245) from Etsy maker Cold War Creations is a stunning display for checking the time and temp. It’s elegant cylindrical glass case mirrors the shape of its internal Soviet IN-14 Nixie ...

If you’re a fan of things retro and an electronics do-it-youselfer, this might might be just the thing for you – it’s a kit that lets you built your own clock, that displays the time using wonderfully ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...