The obvious solution is to geek out completely and make a dekatron watch that tells time in metric! Use two A108s and divide the day into 10 hours of 100 minutes, then have the first tube display hours and the second 10s of minutes. Sure, nobody is going to be able to read the thing, but once you get to the point where you are seriously talking about building a dekatron-based watch, I think all hope of having a practical device has been thrown out the window already.
Ultimately building a dekatron watch is to doable though, to really break people's brains you are going to have to build a watch out of direct view beam switching tubes. http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/articleview.php?item=1090 If someone manages to actually pull that off, they could probably somehow tap their own lack of sanity as a power source... -- 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.
