It looks ideal and should certainly fill a gap. - Richard
On Friday, 5 February 2021 at 11:26:36 UTC Ian Sparkes wrote: > So, it started like this: I liked the Zirffa style Chinese boards - I > thought the hardware was pretty good, but the firmware was really > primitive. I was going to set about re-writing the firmware for these > boards, but them came up with the idea of simply taking the hardware > approach and using my existing firmware on it. > > I took "inspiration" from the many Chinese boards out there. I took the > time to go through quite a few prototype cycles and get the board worked > out. I took the time to learn how to work the PCBA factories, how to > specify the components, how to "productionize" the board design and so on. > > Now I am at the point that I have an assembled board available, which is > far, far better in terms of firmware (it's open source and fully featured), > has better hardware (e.g. proper clamping for the drivers, swappable tube > holders) and is comparable in price to the Chinese boards. The prices you > see on the site are "one off" prices. > > I'm calling it the MNC6 (Medium Nixie Clock 6-Digit) and you can have a > look at the web page here: > > https://www.nixieclock.biz/StoreMNC6.html > > It is intended for people who don't want to spend the day soldering > everything together, and instead want to have something up and running in > half an hour or so. And because it's not from China, you can have some > support for it! > > I'd be interested to hear your thoughts and feedback! > -- 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/0dfe7702-27f8-4dee-9900-152b3dc69563n%40googlegroups.com.
