Nixie Music Visualizer

[iw2mln]

Great ! Do you have any scehmatics ?

[TheFurtiveFox]

This looks pretty awesome.  Great job :)

[douro20]

@IllegalMavamaarten

They are gas-discharge tubes; they have near instantaneous response.

[stylesuxx23]

very nice



[parabolic9]

nixie BRAND? stfu.

cold cathode's are as to nixies as a segway is to a blimp.

Your filtering looks really good. are comparators driving it directly or are you using SSR's?

[lurhmann]

@parabolic9

The cathode is the element that lights up, and it is a cold cathode because it doesn't need a heater to operate (unlike vacuum tubes). All Nixie tubes are actually cold cathode lamps, but they are closer to neon lights than CCFLs, which you are probably thinking of.

The cathode lights proportionally to the current through the tube, and it is controlled by an op-amp connected to a BJT.

[sstojanov23]

What's the song??

[Abyss0147]

@sstojanov23 You're supposed to be my friend by 1990s

[leasecleaning]

badass

[Vocoder07]

use you LED or plasma tubes or something???

[XELA2T]

very beautiful

[tyga42]

why is it electronic engineers always listen to random music no ones heard of?

[AmAnAnCe]

@tyga42

maybe because popular music is shit.

[crazywright83]

@tyga42 because thats the way we role

[tyga42]

@crazywright83 I just wanted to give you excuse to say it :D

[douro20]

I'd like to see these tings used more often. They are a nice retreat from current digital bargraphs; they are analog displays, meaning their output is completely linear.

[VideyoJunkei]

Small flourecent tubes (used in LCD panels) can also act like this, but they are very dim.

[gavincurtis]

Beautiful! Put them in a rack cabinet :D

[klemo86]

It isn't nixie, it's plasma bargraph

[lurhmann]

False. They are Nixie brand cold-cathode display tubes if you want to get technical. Its more of a neon light than plasma.

[charlietheanim8tor]

Would you have a rough estimate of the cost it took to build this setup? I applaud the elegance of your design, and I'd like to duplicate it. Sadly, I'm on a budget and can't over-indulge :)

[HLSDK]

@charlietheanim8tor LEss than $400, more than $50 I'd imagine using tubes. Less with LEDs, but LEDs I'd imagine are more complicated.

[charlietheanim8tor]

Do you think it would be easier to do this with an Arduino and a few MOSFETS instead of all of the other circuitry?

[nodnodwinkwinkV]

want.

[fgil45]

Very nice!

[vftdhys]

whoa. thats so dang awesome. ive got to have one.

[JakubKobik]

This is NICE, can you give me that song the "The day i turned to glass - honeycut" send on e-mail? pls. :-)

[revolvingtoto]

awesome dude

[gavincurtis]

Beautiful design and workmanship.

[sonick808]

NICE!

[cutterschoicenotmine]

very, very, very nice! do you have any plans available?

[blaxpear]

How did you do your band pass filtering?

Thanks for the tip.

[MungeParty]

It's probably FFT.

[deemstyle]

very nice. You must have a killer powersupply. 10ma for a full bar * 14 bars = 140ma. 150VDC * 140ma = 21Watts!

Nice work indeed...

[ohiopctech]

this has to be one of if not the most hardcore vu meters i have ever seen!

[merqleez]

Wow nice work. Obviously your DAD had nothing to do with this

[Br0]

Holy fuck.

This is amazing! Great Job man! Totally sexy! Interested in selling kits? ;} hit me up

[dan551x]

WOW thats awesome!! great job!!!

[rdzombie]

Great job. looks sweet!

[l1oyd]

very cool, most impressed in how it looks.

[l1oyd]

very cool, most impressed in how it looks.

[pkcwan]

tighttt