Hackaday (unofficial) November 2, 2023 9:00pm Random Number Generator is a Blast from the Past #classichacks #555 #linearfeedbackshiftregister #nixie #nixietube #prng #rng #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Random Number Generator Is A Blast From The Past Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of doing anythin…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 17, 2023 6:00am [Dalibor Farný]’s Enormous Nixies Light Up Contemporary Art Museum #art #science #artinstallation #daliborfarny #hiroshima #nixietube #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 [Dalibor Farný]’s Enormous Nixies Light Up Contemporary Art Museum Nixie tubes come in many shapes and sizes, but in only one color: the warm orange glow that makes them so desirable. They don’t usually come in large numbers, either: a typical clock has four…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 18, 2023 6:00pm Conductive Gel Has Potential #chemistryhacks #conductive #gel #mineraloil #nixietube #solution #xanthangum #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Conductive Gel Has Potential There are some technologies first imagined in the Star Trek universe have already come to exist in the modern day. Communicators, tablet computers, and computer voice recognition are nearly as good…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 3, 2022 7:00pm Nixie Display Module Is Addressable Via SPI #classichacks #nixietube #nixietubes #pic #spi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Nixie Display Module Is Addressable Via SPI There are plenty of SPI interface screens on the market, but few of them have the charm of the good old Nixie tube. [Tony] decided to whip up a simple three-Nixie module that could be addressed via…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 14, 2022 7:00pm 2022 Sci-Fi Contest: Nixie Calculator is Resplendent in Walnut Enclosure #contests #2022scificontest #calculator #nixietube #nixietubes #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 2022 Sci-Fi Contest: Nixie Calculator Is Resplendent In Walnut Enclosure The Nixie tube is one of the most popular display technologies amongst the hacker and maker set. Glowing numerals can warm even the coldest heart, particularly when they’re energized with hun…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 8, 2022 12:00am Upcycled Nixie Clock Fit For A Friend #clockhacks #arduino #in4 #nixie #nixieclock #nixietube #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Upcycled Nixie Clock Fit For A Friend Building a clock from parts is a right of passage for makers, and often represents a sensible introduction into the world of electronics. It’s also hard to beat the warm glow of Nixie tubes i…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 18, 2022 8:00pm Retro Future Nixie Corvair Instrument Panel #carhacks #cardash #nixie #nixietachometer #nixietube #odometer #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Retro Future Nixie Corvair Instrument Panel The future we know today looks very different than the one envisioned in the 60s and 70s. For starters, it has far too few Nixie tubes. An oversight [nixiebunny] wants to address with his Nixie tub…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 30, 2022 1:00pm Relay-Driven Nixie Clock Gets You To Stop Scrolling #clockhacks #nixie #nixieclock #nixietube #nixietubeclock #nixietubes #relay #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Relay-Driven Nixie Clock Gets You To Stop Scrolling We don’t often get a Tips line submission where the “Subject” line auto-translates as “Yoshi Yoshi Yoshi”, linking to a short video by [Yasunari Industries] (embedded …
Hackaday (unofficial) January 5, 2022 1:00pm Dice Rolls From the Beginning of Time #science #nixietube #prng #randomnumbergenerator #trng #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Dice Rolls From The Beginning Of Time Generating random numbers might seem like a trivial task, that is until the numbers need to be truly random for cryptography or security reasons. When that’s the case, it turns out that these…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 9, 2021 12:00pm AI Powered Coffee Maker Knows A Bit Too Much About You #cookinghacks #machinelearning #raspberrypi #advancedcoffeemachine #artificialintelligence #flask #nixietube #python #raspberrypizero #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 AI Powered Coffee Maker Knows A Bit Too Much About You People keep warning that Skynet and the great robot uprising is not that far away, what with all this recent AI and machine-learning malarky getting all the attention lately. But we think going str…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 28, 2021 9:00pm Binary Clock Lets the Nixies Glow #clockhacks #thehackadayprize #2021hackadayprize #clock #custompcb #nixie #nixiedriver #nixietube #nixietubeclock #nixietubes #timepiece #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Binary Clock Lets The Nixies Glow We’re not here to talk about another clock. Okay, we are, but the focus isn’t about whether or not it can tell time, it’s about taking a simple idea to an elegant conclusion. In a…