Amazing achievement. Having explored low power nixie tube applications myself, I can appreciate just how hard it is to do something with very constrained requirements like this. I'm curious what processor you used?
On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 9:19:33 AM UTC-4, Remco wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > The last year or so I was doing a hobby project of a nixiewatch. I was > wondering what you guys think of it. > > > I got inspired for the case by Craig Smith from this post: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/neonixie-l/RINs0RbaYB8 > > > It features: > > - Two small nixie tubes of type z5900m. > > - Accurate real time clock. > > - Calculations showed that 350 hours standby time was easily achievable. > > - Bluetooth for controlling settings and setting the time of the watch as > well as seeing the battery status. > - Some Bluetooth settings include: Animation On/Off, Manual or > accelerometer triggering of tubes, background led On/Off. Programmable > button for seeing temperature of battery percentage. > > - Accelerometer for triggering the tubes when wrist is turned > > - 300 mAh battery. > > - Powerfull microcontroller. > > - Ultra low power microcontroller. > > - RGB led for multiple purposes. > > - Battery gas gauge IC for accurately monitoring the battery state. > > - micro USB for charging the battery. > > - One multi direction button for triggering, Bluetooth connection and a > programmable button for temperature reading or battery status. > > - CNC milled housing from Aluminum. > > - Plexiglass window for protection > > - Bluetooth phone application. > > - Optional time synchronization via WiFi. > > - Optional Vibration motor to indicate smartphone notifications like > Whatsapp, Facebook, Snapchat, SMS... > -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6015a4c1-8a63-4c94-8aaf-d3ca54ac7242%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
