I just love it ! The tick-tock sound, and you can never stick in too many dekatrons :o)
The skull is a nice touch, too. On Saturday, January 4, 2014 4:35:11 PM UTC-8, Morris Odell wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was in New Zealand recently and visited the Clapham National Clock > Museum in a town called Whangarei. One of the items there caught my eye, it > was a German skull clock from the 1920s as seen > here<http://watchismo.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/time-of-death-antique-rotating-eyeball.html>. > > I thought a Nixie version would be just the thing for my office at the > Institute <http://www.vifm.org> where I am a senior physician. A couple > of weeks of intensive work over the summer break and here it is: > > http://youtu.be/6rHZqU2x3EA > > The skull is a plastic anatomical model which has been surgically modified > to fit two dekatrons in the orbits. There's also a small speaker in the > cranial cavity to sound the ticks and the Westminster chimes. The devices > in the nasal cavity are a LED and a PIR sensor to switch on the display > only in the presence of warm live humans. The red button on the front of > the box is the alarm switch. The time display is made using Russian IN-17 > tubes multiplexed in 3 groups of two. In the box is a PCB with an AVR micro > and appropriate power supply and interface electronics for the tubes and > speaker. The dekatrons are purely ornamental and not part of the timebase > as in previous clocks I have made. As this clock is going into an internal > office there's no GPS receiver included so it is set manually and gets its > timing from the mains frequency. > > Happy New Year to all, > > Morris > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/7febb08c-289d-499f-a73c-9f1c65e29f02%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
