Hello everyone! I've been lurking on this list sporadically for a few months, and now that I have something specific to share/contribute I decided to join. I've been a "mad scientist" all my life, and have always been fond of tubes. After seeing several examples of nixie clocks on the web, I wanted to build one of my own. Using all tubes, of course. Soon I realized that the R&D was going to be much more fun than the actual implemention. Deriving a stable 1-Hz clock pulse from the 60-Hz power line (yeah, I'm in the US), dividing/counting pulses, driving the nixie tubes - all exciting challenges. But wait, after I get one digit working I have to make 5 more just like it to actually display the time? Too tedious for someone as ADHD as myself. So I settled on a one-digit design - no, still too tedious - how about just one bit? Display only zero and one, but precisely synchronized. Great; I can do that much. But the result would be kinda boring. If it doesn't tell time, it should at least go "tick-tock" like a respectable clock. So this is what I came up with: Time Machine on youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seaAFlPyKX8>
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