{"id":8759,"date":"2007-05-04T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/next-project-nixie-clock\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:26","slug":"next-project-nixie-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/next-project-nixie-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Project: Nixie Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/jerronimo.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jerronimo<\/a> for a while on IRC about it, I think I&#8217;ve got a good idea about what I&#8217;d like my next project (after the <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki_archive\/A\/HMLiberator\">HMLiberator<\/a>) to be: a Nixie clock.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that it&#8217;ll be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&middot; Controlled by a PIC.<br \/>\n&middot; Time \/ date \/ etc stored in a battery-backed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxp.com\/pip\/PCF8583_5.html\">PCF8583<\/a> (or so).<br \/>\n&middot; Four <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nixie_tube\">Nixie tubes<\/a>.<br \/>\n&middot; Time \/ date \/ whatever will be set via serial terminal. PCB will include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftdichip.com\/Products\/FT232BM.htm\">FT232BM<\/a> for easy USB connection and footprints for DB9 connector, MAX232, etc.<br \/>\n&middot; Other things may be possible via serial, including displaying one&#8217;s own data. This makes the clock also an external Nixie display for computers or embedded devices.<br \/>\n&middot; Colon (:) in between pairs of digits can be turned on and off.<br \/>\n&middot; Again, all open-source hardware and software. Probably done in mikroBasic since I&#8217;m getting to know it fairly well.<br \/>\n&middot; I&#8217;ll make a few kits available to friends at cost, likely without enclosure.<br \/>\n&middot; Maybe a bootloader so new firmware can be dumped on via serial port instead of ICSP?<br \/>\n&middot; Possibly a way to control color-variable LEDs for illuminating base and \/ or tubes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, yeah. That&#8217;s a ways out, but I think that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll work on next. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After talking with jerronimo for a while on IRC about it, I think I&#8217;ve got a good idea about what I&#8217;d like my next project (after the HMLiberator) to be: a Nixie clock. I&#8217;m thinking that it&#8217;ll be: &middot; Controlled by a PIC. &middot; Time \/ date \/ etc stored in a battery-backed PCF8583 (or\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12871,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}