{"id":10579,"date":"2015-07-20T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2015-07-20T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:42:21","slug":"atmega328-driven-diy-nixie-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/atmega328-driven-diy-nixie-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmega328 driven DIY Nixie clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Mills&#8217; has shared his cool-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/petemills.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/nixie-tube-clock.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DIY Nixie clock design<\/strong><\/a> on his personal blog. His design is based on Atmega328 and uses software driven RTC and voltage booster to achieve ~175V DC for Nixie tubes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10580\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/clock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10580\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10580\" alt=\"DIY Nixie clock\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/clock-580x378.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/clock-580x378.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/clock.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DIY Nixie clock<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nixie_tube\">Nixie tubes<\/a>\u00a0are cool. \u00a0They have great aesthetic appeal with their difficult-to-photograph, warm orange glow, and dem curvy numerals. \u00a0They add an organic je ne sais quoi to a hobby with ostensibly digital design cues. \u00a0Further, they pose technical challenges in the way of producing and switching the ~175 V DC needed to light each tube element. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And as far as I am aware, there are no new nixie tubes being produced<\/span>; as such, procurement can be a challenge unto itself. \u00a0My N.O.S. nixies came from Russia thru Ebay, and only 3 were duds. \u00a0Incidentally the seller replaced those 3, FOC.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">strike thru<\/span>\u00a0text above results from a tip from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+NicholasStock\/posts\">+nicholasStock<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0who points out new nixie tubes ae in fact being produced:\u00a0http:\/\/www.daliborfarny.com\/ \u00a0The linked tubes are really impressive from a technical standpoint as well as asthetics. \u00a0They seem to amplify all of the design cues we love about NOS nixies and the results speak for themselves. \u00a0Might still be an issue with procurement, however&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Mills&#8217; has shared his cool-looking DIY Nixie clock design on his personal blog. His design is based on Atmega328 and uses software driven RTC and voltage booster to achieve ~175V DC for Nixie tubes. Nixie tubes\u00a0are cool. \u00a0They have great aesthetic appeal with their difficult-to-photograph, warm orange glow, and dem curvy numerals. \u00a0They add an organic je ne sais quoi to a hobby with ostensibly digital design cues. \u00a0Further, they pose technical challenges in the way of producing and switching the ~175 V DC needed to light each tube element. \u00a0And as far as I am aware, there are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,15],"tags":[1226,1225,1227],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino-2","category-avr-projects","tag-atmega328-project","tag-diy-nixie-clock","tag-software-rtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10581,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions\/10581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}