my story can be found at www.westdave.net it is an old site don't get any splinters
nixie clocks todate ...about 200 -----Original Message----- From: neonixie-l <[email protected]> To: Digest recipients <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Feb 6, 2018 11:43 pm Subject: [neonixie-l] Digest for [email protected] - 6 updates in 2 topics [email protected] Google Groups Topic digest View all topics Is this cool or what? Dalibor is up to no good ;-) - 5 Updates Story Time: How you got to the nixie hobby? - 1 Update Is this cool or what? Dalibor is up to no good ;-) Alex <[email protected]>: Feb 06 01:12PM -0800 Seeing letters in a nixie (curvy) format is un-nerving in some way... The artwork is described on the artists main website here it seems : http://dominicharris.com/simulated-2018/ This appears to essentially be a giant *n* letter word array, but with the letters limited to " S I M U L A T E D O" Quite odd but certainly impressive, if just for how much money must of been sunk into it. I would of just stuck at a 10 letter word myself, but maybe Dalibor had a minimum order ;-) - Alex On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:16:41 UTC, Jens Boos wrote: Nicholas Stock <[email protected]>: Feb 06 01:38PM -0800 I think the more pressing question should be, could you fit 26 letters in each tube.....;-) Paul Andrews <[email protected]>: Feb 06 02:47PM -0800 Its a mutilated modem museum On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 7:57:02 PM UTC-5, Jens Boos wrote: Jon <[email protected]>: Feb 06 04:05PM -0800 Lovely stuff. There are a lot of tubes involved in the project - if I understand the annotations correctly, there are 12 instances with 60 tubes and 12 with 10 - that's 840 tubes! Something about the write-up on the website looks a bit strange... It claims that the artist fabricated the tubes - did he really go work in Dalibor's lab for a few months to learn and make them? Or did he just pay Dalibor to do it? In the latter case I think a slightly more accurate description is needed... Jon. On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 9:12:03 PM UTC, Alex wrote: Mike Harrison <[email protected]>: Feb 07 12:25AM On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:05:23 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Dalibor's lab for a few months to learn and make them? Or did he just pay >Dalibor to do it? In the latter case I think a slightly more accurate >description is needed... You must be new to the art world... Do you think Damien Hurst picked that shark himself ? Back to top Story Time: How you got to the nixie hobby? Keith Moore <[email protected]>: Feb 06 10:18AM -0800 Unlike most folks here, I do not have any background in electronics nor exposure to the electronics perspective of nixies and glowing tubes. However, I do go way back with nixies, too. I started as a computer software developer in the 1970's and worked on Burroughs systems for years. Burroughs machines had neon and nixies as part of their design. So through the lifespan of neon, nixies, numitrons, LEDs, LCD, VFD, TFT, etc, I have been interested in the glowing things and the progression of the technologies though this brief history of a few decades. I really didn't think a lot about nixies between about 1980-2010. In the early 2000's I thought it would be nice if I taught myself a bit about electronic. I figured it would be useful or at least quench a curiosity. I started building B.E.A.M. toys and then progressed to doing on-the-chip gadgets the leveraged these amazing PIC and Atmel microcontrollers. I was really excited about the features these little chips had. And I started to experiment more and more learning ever so little about actual electronics, but a lot about these little ucontrollers. A few years later, I was talking with a friend about some of the self-teaching I was doing building tiny low voltage toys and robots. He is an LED display freak and he asked me if I knew about these things called dekatrons. I hadn't heard of them. So I looked into it and discovered that there was crossover into the old nixie work that I lived in decades ago. I couldn't believe (still cannot) that you can get such wonderful old display tubes and make them do amazing things like you all do here. I was hooked right there and then and got a kit from threeneurons and haven't looked back since (except to look back and buy more nixie stock and more projects). I have been a pied piper for preservation of old computer technologies and software for years (https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/) so I added to this my passion to preserve and demonstrate these great glowing devices. Thanks to all of you for the advice and inspiration over the past years! I still do not know electronics well but you all have made me feel welcome and continue to provide lots of meaningful fun/learning. @nixiekeith http://www.glowtubeglow.com/ On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 1:00:38 PM UTC-5, SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. wrote: Back to top You have received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to [email protected]. -- 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/1617391007e-c89-bcdb%40webjas-vae213.srv.aolmail.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
