Hello all,
I am on my summer break and am finding myself with a little extra time. I have recently fallen in love with the nixie tube and have decided that I want to build myself a Nixie Clock from the ground up. If that goes well I hope to build three and possibly a watch, but that all hinges on the project before.
A little background about me might help. I have little to no practical experience with electronic circuits. I took a Marine Corps Avionics course in 2000 which taught me what a circuit is and most if not all of the standard components. I can, with some difficulty, read a wiring diagram. In the Marine Corps I was a Calibration and Repair tech who worked mostly on Physical Dimensional tools but I was trained to (and had some minimal contact with) troubleshoot electronics to component level. All that being said...I want to design a functional circuit, Layout and Etch the PCB, gather all the necessary components and assemble a working clock.
The first step will be a 4 digit clock with as simple a circuit as possible. The second may be something more complicated, possibly with a programed chip or wwvb or gps element. The third, and real goal, will be a 12 to 14 digit clock showing time and date (haven't decided on 2 or 4 year format) with a decatron as a 10th of a second analogish meter, like this one I found at Nixie Clock gallery . The watch I may throw in if I'm feeling a little frisky after everything else.
I am hoping to use this forum as a sounding board. I hope I don't ask to many noob questions as I do try to do my research before I ask questions. However, there is a lot of bits and pieces to track so I need somewhere other than my head to store all the different threads, and hopefully get some feedback along the way.
Please feel free to let me know what you think.
Regards,
dale
I am on my summer break and am finding myself with a little extra time. I have recently fallen in love with the nixie tube and have decided that I want to build myself a Nixie Clock from the ground up. If that goes well I hope to build three and possibly a watch, but that all hinges on the project before.
A little background about me might help. I have little to no practical experience with electronic circuits. I took a Marine Corps Avionics course in 2000 which taught me what a circuit is and most if not all of the standard components. I can, with some difficulty, read a wiring diagram. In the Marine Corps I was a Calibration and Repair tech who worked mostly on Physical Dimensional tools but I was trained to (and had some minimal contact with) troubleshoot electronics to component level. All that being said...I want to design a functional circuit, Layout and Etch the PCB, gather all the necessary components and assemble a working clock.
The first step will be a 4 digit clock with as simple a circuit as possible. The second may be something more complicated, possibly with a programed chip or wwvb or gps element. The third, and real goal, will be a 12 to 14 digit clock showing time and date (haven't decided on 2 or 4 year format) with a decatron as a 10th of a second analogish meter, like this one I found at Nixie Clock gallery . The watch I may throw in if I'm feeling a little frisky after everything else.
I am hoping to use this forum as a sounding board. I hope I don't ask to many noob questions as I do try to do my research before I ask questions. However, there is a lot of bits and pieces to track so I need somewhere other than my head to store all the different threads, and hopefully get some feedback along the way.
Please feel free to let me know what you think.
Regards,
dale