Well done Anders, looks very nice... numitrons don't get enough love in my
opinion, they have a nice warm incandescent glow all of their own..

Cheers,

Nick

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 1:27 PM Jeff Walton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Very nice looking!  Clean and simple.  I like the wood.
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> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On
> Behalf Of *Anders Mikkelsen
> *Sent:* Monday, November 11, 2024 3:16 PM
> *To:* neonixie-l <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [neonixie-l] Another Numitron clock
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> I came across some NOS DR-2100 Numitrons a while back, and decided to
> design a clock around them, as a delayed Christmas present for family and
> friends.
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> The design is pretty basic, but it gave me a chance to finally make
> something which resembles a finished product, using some basic woodworking
> with hand tools, and I must say I'm really happy with the result.
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> I never really fell in love with Numitrons from seeing photos, but a
> friend had built a clock with some Russian ones and that was the turning
> point for me. Since I acquired enough tubes to make some clocks, I decided
> to go with a mass-manufacturable design on a single PCB, in order to
> simplify the assembly.
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> On the firmware side, there was a lot of experimentation with WiFi, NTP,
> DST and time zones, but I recently decided to strip it down to bare basics
> with manually settable time, as that ended up being the lesser evil
> compared to captive portal web configuration and WiFi setup with endless
> complications. Often simpler is better, and I'm happy to see that my single
> button time setting code is intuitive enough that most people figure it out
> on their own.
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> I'm still a bit on the fence about sharing design files, but I'm
> gravitating towards doing so. For now this is just a showcase of my own
> project, which might hopefully inspire people to pick up some nice wood and
> a hand plane.
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