IV-18 VFD vacuum Russian Clock video (part 3)
Here a little video of my clock. In fact, I decided to replace the video on dailymotion ( it offers better quality than youtube)
admin October 10th, 2006
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IV-18 VFD vacuum Russian Clock (part 2)
In the previous article, I have study the way to power this large VFD, now we gonna take a look closer at the logic itself. We need to drive a lot of bits (8+9) at ~40v. After a little googling, I discover that Allegro still sell some VFD drivers, but they are really hard to [...]
admin October 9th, 2006
IV-18 VFD vacuum Russian Clock (part 1)
Hello HackADay / MakeBlog / HackedGadget users, be sure to read the second post,
as most pictures are here.
/ Enjoy
After my nixie clock, I decided to build a new one based on a old VFD vacuum tube. In fact, the brother of a friend (which live in Ukrainia) give me a bag of tubes. Beside I [...]
admin October 9th, 2006
Buy on eBay ? (Led and LC Meter)
Ok, like a lot of people in the DIY world, I used to look on eBay . Today I bought some really nice high power led
I hope I will have better success than my previous buy. In fact, I bought a LC Meter from PalmElectronics on their eBay Webstore. Fine .. except that 2 days [...]
admin September 7th, 2006
Simple negative power supply (-5V / -12V / -15V)
Sometimes you need a simple negative power supply. The best example is the contrast PSU for common small LCD device. Building -5V from a battery or a wallmart supply isn’t really easy. I decided to build a small device that is able to provide -5V, -12V, -15V. I used the MAX 764/765/766 serie. Simply change [...]
admin June 10th, 2006
Nixie clock: “Buy the nixies”
I decided to build a nixie clock, a long time ago. I finished this stuff, and I decided to write some articles on the way to achieve this.
So this is the first of a short serie of article, on my nixie clock. Beside I want people to be able to reproduce this for the own [...]
admin June 1st, 2006
VFD Teaser
Hi all, I haven’t post here since a while right now. In fact, I spend quite all my time w/ playing with some electronics stuff.
Some people asked what I’m doing .. that it .. here a teaser
This is some New Old Stock Russian VFD vaccum tubes.. ready for my next RSS reader !
I’m looking for [...]
admin May 20th, 2006
Nixie clock at home ?
Ok, I’ve been off for a while right now. In fact, I’m playing with electronic’s stuff a lot. I just decided to build a nixie clock (for the fun).
For those wondering what is a nixie. Take a look at Wikipedia
And a nixie clock look like this:
There is a couple of hard stuffs to fix for [...]
admin November 8th, 2005