I personally use the Picaxe system. It's a PIC microcontroller with it's own basic bootloader. You can get moving very quickly using picaxe, and you can have a single tube going in no time. Any questions, feel free to ask. As I posted earlier, I'm brushing up on all things nixie, so I'm kind of in the same boat. Shane
On Jul 10, 3:14 pm, neutron spin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks.....I will do that....Learning is half the fun.....Will have to > brush up my programming skills...who knows perhaps I may even enjoy > it! A person who can figure out what makes something tick will have a > greater appreciation for whatever they do.... > > On 10 July, 16:00, David Forbes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 7/10/11 10:59 AM, neutron spin wrote: > > > > I understand that the folks that sell clocks or kits out there have to > > > protect their code. But I was looking for something open source or > > > whatever that I could experiment with to get me started. I have > > > collected several Russian nixies and would like to start a project. > > > Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. > > > > Regards > > > Google the question, and you will find several open source clock > > designs. Some are more complicated than others. All of them have more > > code than you probably want to understand, but it's good to read through > > the source code to learn what's involved in making a clock work. > > > -- > > David Forbes, Tucson AZ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
