Ryan Brooks's Nixie Clock: "So, I wanted a Nixie clock and I really wanted to design the hardware and program it myself. Most of the kits out there are based around a PIC or some other new, easy to use microcontroller. I thought it would be much more interesting to make a clock powered by an old school computer."

It's funny how some technologies come back around - not because they are inherently better at doing what they are designed to do (for example a £2 quartz watch is more accurate than most mechanical watches costing many hundreds of times as much), but because they have some intrinsic quality that we are drawn to. This for example is just beautiful to me; primarily because of the feel of the Nixie tubes. I want it!

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