Hi my name is eric and I am 17, I started of will no experience and I have built a clock using a Arduino clone called anarduino, It's a very small module type package. Having no previous programing skills I have completed my nixie clock. My arduino gets the time from a Real Time Clock 1307, from there it shifts the data out to a shift register 74hc595... a shift register will turn 3 pins from the microcontroler into 8 more pins, the first 4 pins go to the HV driver 74141 the other 4 bits go to anode driving transistors to turn each nixie on and off. I would be glad to share my code and I could make a diagram.
So my clock has 4 bulbs (IN-12) and it turns on one at a time and displays that number, then it turn off and the next bulb turn on with the next number, when you do this fast enough that's called multiplexing and you can't tell that they are not all on at the same time.. So all you need with my desgine is $10 Anarduino $2-3, RTC 1307 $2 HV driver 74141, 74hc595 $.50, some transistors $3 and that it. Arduino has free easy to get to software and when it gets down to it, it's just a clock and you don't need a <$20 microcontroler You can email if you chose my path and I can give you my code -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/DvZdgHDvjJAJ. 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.
