Thanks! I really like how the tubes are perfectly readable in bright indoor 
lighting, while still not being offensively bright in a dark room. 

On Monday, November 11, 2024 at 10:45:44 PM UTC+1 Nicholas Stock wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Jeff
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>>  
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>>  
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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
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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. 
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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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