I would just like to wish all group members a Happy Christmas It is 10 years ago that I began my first experiments with nixie tubes, when I decided that I wanted to make a nixie clock for my father's 60th birthday present. So, beginning in November I ordered tubes, some PICs, downloaded Microchip's MPLAB for the first time and taught myself assembly language for PICs. It was a steep learning curve considering the 10 week deadline, but I couldn't afford a higher level language so battled on.
Then my interest continued with an invite from Ray Weisling to join the first nixie group, NEONIXIE-L on Yahoo, when he saw me selling clock number 2 on eBay, which I made in order to pay for both clocks. It is nice to see so many of those members are also here, and with you there is also a huge number of new people with an interest in nixies. It is nice to know that so many people share an interest with yourself ! Although I built the first clock alone, it is true to say that I would not have improved my skills or opened my mind to some very interesting ideas had it not been for my membership of that group, and the support, the nagging, challenges and humour shared among all members there, and now here. I seem to have taken those ideas sideways into developing the Smartsocket concept, originally for neon based tubes and now for the IV-17 vfd tubes which I first began experimenting with in 2007. (it has been a slow project !) Merry Christmas and the best of the season to you all and your families Chris -- 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.
