The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people. [Changliang Li] is apparently one of those people, because he’s using soviet-era cold-cathode ...

Nixie tubes, while built during the vacuum tube era of the mid-20th century, still exist in a niche among hackers. It’s quite the task to get them up and running due to a number of quirks, so getting ...

Nixie tubes, those glowing technological relics from yesteryear, have lately been finding their way into steampunk-esque clocks and other devices. At the same time, we've also been seeing an increase ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

We have featured quite a few different Nixie clocks here on Geeky Gadgets, but the latest one, designed by Daniel Kurth, is definitely the coolest so far: the Nixie Concrete Clock. The Nixie Concrete ...

There have been quite a few new Nixie clocks over the last couple of weeks here on Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is the work of UK artist Kev Stenning, the Steampunk Nixie Clock. The Steampunk Nixie ...

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 ...

Nixie displays are the old tube-based displays that were widely used in electronics back in the 1960s to display numerals and symbols. Their retro style is what makes ...