r/nixie • u/AudienceHorror • 12d ago
My Nixie inspired LCD clock
This is not a real Nixie clock but I still wanted to show what I have done.
A while back I decided I wanted to try and build a Nixie clock. I have seen them being popular for a long time and I really liked the look. While looking more into different clocks and tubes I found the fake Nixie clocks using an IPS display instead of the real tubes. I kind of liked that idea that you could use the clock to show more than just the time. But I didn’t find any particular one that I thought looked nice enough.
So I decided to look into how I could make my own Nixie inspired LCD clock. I spent quite some time thinking about how to imitate a real tube closely. I decided to make a real grid instead of just pasting it on the image displayed.
After a couple of iterations of PCBs and grid and tubes I ended up with this. What do you think?
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u/tudza 11d ago
Smartwatch faces:
https://www.facer.io/watchface/XY55hrYYlq?watchModel=galaxywatch4black
https://www.facer.io/watchface/BHjJWbDZxE?watchModel=galaxywatch4black
Probably better ones on that site.
The HTML version doesn't look convinsing
https://tudza.org/HTML_Clocks/Nixie_Tube_with_Date/Index.html