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Nixie Clock
Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:28:35 +0000

This has been a long-running (standing/sitting in a box?) project, I got some nixie tubes, in ooh, it must have been 2002 but have never had the guts to make a high-voltage (albeit very low current) controller board from scratch.  Fortunately the nice people at Arduinix.com have come up with a simple board which uses cheap Russian BCD demultiplexers for not too much money.

So far I’ve built the board and tested it with a single tube (at 170V) which works fine:



Anyway the build page is here: http://www.zoot.org.uk/wiki/index.php?n=Projects.NixieClock

CurrentCost + PowerMeter
Tue, 18 May 2010 00:15:00 +0000

I managed to get my CurrentCost thingy to submit data to Google PowerMeter, thanks to the tweet-a-watt hack.


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