Welcome Ryan! - Richard
On Saturday, 2 January 2021 at 02:21:33 UTC Ryan B wrote: > > Hello All! > > My name is Ryan, I'm 37, from Spokane, WA, USA. I am a very amateur > electronics enthusiast. As a kid I liked playing with the Radio Shack 200 > in 1 kits but after the age of 13 or so my interest waned until about three > years ago when I thought I was buying some numitron tubes that ended up > being VFD tubes. From there I saw an analog Nixie clock that someone had > made using relays and rotating PCBs to indicate the time. I bought a > handful of IN-2 tubes because I thought they were the smallest and could > maybe make a watch from them. Since then I have increased my collection to > fifty or so tubes. I buy the tubes with a project in mind then squirrel > them away until I have the rest of the components to build them. I use > KiCAD for my PCB design. > > So far, I have built a couple nixie watch kits from labkit.ru and one VFD > watch from the same source. I have also built two of Paul Andrews nixie > pendants. That's pretty much it. Now my girlfriend wants an IN-18 clock for > the living room so that's on the list as well. > > I am currently trying to design a watch using IV-16 numitron tubes and am > making some necklaces using IN-19 tubes. > > Thanks for adding me to the group, I am primarily here to see your > projects, get a bit of help when I can and hopefully find some tubes I need > when I have exhausted my sources (or learn of new tube sources when I can!) > > Ryan > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6c5b7245-ce9a-43f0-a103-e865f9f9135fn%40googlegroups.com.
