It is an Arduinix "shield" running on top of an Arduino microcontroller board, which is an open source design that many many people use for all kinds of stuff. Nixie tubes date from the early 1960s and are the precursors to the LED-based seven segment displays (now also obsolete!) that calculators used to use. A nixie tube has 10 wire elements, each shaped like a number. Put a 150-200 volt DC charge on them and they'll glow.
it's cool that you posted "my" code running on your board, but full props go to Arduinix forum member Emblazed - I could never've coded the fade effect from scratch; I only tweaked the code to support the 4-tube board and cleaned it up a little bit (e.g. there were some hard-coded pin writes in there that I changed to match the global pin variables).
It is an Arduinix "shield" running on top of an Arduino microcontroller board, which is an open source design that many many people use for all kinds of stuff. Nixie tubes date from the early 1960s and are the precursors to the LED-based seven segment displays (now also obsolete!) that calculators used to use. A nixie tube has 10 wire elements, each shaped like a number. Put a 150-200 volt DC charge on them and they'll glow.
blave549 7 months ago
and this is....?
supaflywacko1988 7 months ago
i dont get it
8drewski 8 months ago
@8drewski
DUDE!
It's an ARDUINO running NIXIE tubes!
It's like have a REAL rotary dial on a smartphone
or if you hooked up an old typewriter to work on a modern day computer
tonyisgrendel 8 months ago
@tonyisgrendel i still don't get it
8drewski 8 months ago
Slothfurnace... the only known living entity to have a 28 hour day...
TheNicholasBrothers 8 months ago
Sloth,
it's cool that you posted "my" code running on your board, but full props go to Arduinix forum member Emblazed - I could never've coded the fade effect from scratch; I only tweaked the code to support the 4-tube board and cleaned it up a little bit (e.g. there were some hard-coded pin writes in there that I changed to match the global pin variables).
blave549 8 months ago
Need one!
pzichos 8 months ago
Nice :)
shadowblack1987 8 months ago