Hi Yall,
Welcome to the list of of the new folks who are lurking or not. I hope yall get as much satisfaction from it as I do! I'm Joe Croft, I post some on this list but am not super active. I am a S/W enginerr by day and a small electronics hobbyist, clock collector and nixie nut by night. Being unschooled, at least formally, I found it was much easier to make money programming than as a production technician. I still love the smell of rosin and the feal of a good solder joint. As I have told the story before, my intersest and love for electronics and neon glow lamps started when I was 7 with my dad's nothing boxes. Not to mention the 90volt batteries he used to power them with. My brother tought us to lick the fingers on both hands and touch the contects. He was a sick brother. My job finally turned to completely S/W in my 40s. No more wiring up equipment in the lab for testing my code or soldering wires to pins to see what the code was doing. No more smell of rosin. That's what started my home hobby of playing with electronics at home. It also ended my foray into writing larger programs at home. That change led me to build my first nixies clock, the NixieNeon. I didn't want just another processor tied to those wonderful glowing digits. I wanted the clock mechanics to match the age of the technology tubes. After some digging I found neon bulb ring counters and I was off running! Now 9 years later, the NixieNon kits are still selling and I've come out with a second kit. The NixieStar. This kit does use a 8 bit processor and the IN-13 or IN-9 tubes. I also put my CNC machine to good use and created a wood 'case' for it. My hope was to create a clock that the wives of geeky husbands would like ;) My clock site is http://www.nixieneon.com. On it I have various information on Nixie tubes and other stuff as well as pictures and videos of my dad's nothing box that started it all. You can also check out the kits and buy one if you are so moved. -joe On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:03 AM neonixie-l <[email protected]> wrote: > Ladies & Gentlemen,,, > > We are getting a steady stream of new members - it'd be great if, instead > of just lurking, you could introduce yourselves with a bit of detail about > your interests, what you've built or intend to build/dream of building. > Even what gets you up the morning and makes you smile! > > Welcome, one and all to this great community! > > Nick > > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/204f1103-91ff-4ad8-8286-1da2901483fb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/204f1103-91ff-4ad8-8286-1da2901483fb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAE%2BVk6MRBPZyq%2B-9zwkFipODMof%3Dk54%2BCpTC4X_aTJeXi27Xcw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
