Nixie Tube Pics

[Trumpkin]

Here are some pics of my nixie tube project nearly finished, all I need to do now is make a case. 

[Canabots]

Ahhh, so you've gotten them drivers built, eh?

Looks really great! I wonder how that'd look on a butler robot...

Is it built to interface with a microcontroller? If so, I'm quite interested in seeing an example 

[SmAsH]

wow, it looks good as!
i haven't seen anything even related to nixie tubes for a while!
if you do hook it up to a microcontroller, please let us know. that would be an awesome project!

[Trumpkin]

It is hooked up to a microcontroller, the bottom board is the $50 robot board. The top board is the driver cicruit which is just a 7441 chip (second chip on this page:   http://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf-datasheets/Databooks-5/Document24240.pdf) Right now i have a program that cicles it through all 10 digits.

[paulstreats]

Nice to see somebody keeping Nixie tubes alive!

[SmAsH]

any chance of a video?

[Trumpkin]

Trying to find a good video host that isn't blocked on my mom and dads computer 

[SmAsH]

if its less than 10mb feel free to send it to me and ill upload it for you...
didn't you have it uploaded already?

[darm dzzle]

After reading this post, I had no idea what a Nixie Tube was. So I googled it and also came across a picture of a "Nixie" watch as worn by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, Inc.

[SmAsH]

holy crap that would look awesome at night!
but don't nixies need high voltages to operate?

[Razor Concepts]

You can use a transformer to get a low voltage, high current in to a high voltage low current.

[Joker94]

hey trumpkin, where did you get the nixie tube, are they redily available to buy or not. Don't worry i don't want to copy, i am just curious

[Trumpkin]

You can get nixie tubes on ebay or if you search on google you can find a couple of online stores that sell them. I got my nixie tube free from a robotics meeting.