24 December 2016

My first Nixie based instrument at work

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Since the Philips PM2422A instrument works, it has been put into use. Here it is measuring a 1% (vintage) 10.7 Mohm resistor. The readin...
22 December 2016

My first Nixie-based instrument

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At the ARI Torino HAM rally few Sunday ago (Nov, 27th 2016) during my third or fourth tour of exhibitors I spotted what looked like a bo...
12 December 2016

Nixie Tube Ciapapuer - 2 - video

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If you are curious how the Nixie Tube Ciapapuer looks, here's a short video: In the end I dropped the fading effect descried in the...
06 December 2016

Nixie Tube Ciapapuer - 1

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Or, in plain English, " Nixie tube home decor ". Literally: "Nixie tube dust collector." Why, why would I ever wan...
03 November 2016

How fast can Arduino toggle a pin?

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I set up this experiment because I wanted to know how fast a standard 16 MHz Arduino board can toggle a pin. Why? Well, say you have a disp...
28 October 2016

Easy socket for ZM1001 (and ZM1000 if necessary)

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At HAM Radio Messe 2016 I bought a board from Philips PM2421 meter. It mounts 4x ZM1000 numeric nixies and 1x ZM1001 symbol nixie (+, -, ~,...
25 October 2016

100 years of DST dates for Europe: 2016-2116

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As described in an earlier post , I want to try implementing automatic DST switch over in my homemade clocks. At least in those that have a ...
20 October 2016

Cheating on DST calculation

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M y homemade clocks currently lack a commodity feature: automatic switch to daylight saving time and back. Throughout Europe this change ...