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JAC
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 Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject: I need a name...... |
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For my beast of a nixie tube clock. 16 tubes of nixie goodness. It's almost finished.
Calling it a nixie tube clock is a bit pedestrian. I have had a think through the Chronotron NixieMax MegaTron ULTRA 3L33t++ type names and it just doesnt seem right.
So I have three choices....
1) Dont call it anything at all on the faceplate artwork. .. then people will look at it and ask what it is.. I guess the incrementing count and clock like display will eventually be apparent to most bipedal humanoids. Sober ones at that.
2) Call it a clock related name .. or something time related, running the risk of sounding cheesier than a double cheese burger, with extra cheese.
3) Call it something completely unrelated to clocks. Maybe invent a brand name.
I am tending to option (1) at the moment.. but really, it looks a little bland .. it needs something on the artwork around the tubes.
so.. any thoughts, abuse, comments, suggestions, etc.. you want to throw my way.. please do!
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smithy
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"The Glowing Nixie", short and sweet
or HexaNixie (bit corny)
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kosmokrator
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:40 am Post subject: |
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NixieTron maybe?
also one picture will help |
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Chiefish
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How about the Tubeinator or Timeinator or The Time Traveller, or The Uber Rare one of a Kind Meganix. IF you wanted to leave it plain maybe you could etch or engrave some scrolling or somthing on the out side borders to make it look a little more fancy.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Tube Time Machine |
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JAC
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:09 am Post subject: |
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Here ya go....
Ok, its not the greatest clock, it is overkill, but as I seem to have perfected the art of starting stuff and never finishing, this is not a bad effort.
The design was never intended to be compact, just versatile. I can drive all sorts of stuff.. more to come...
Anyway.. enjoy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVwfo2YNMH0
Edit: For me, video looks better in firefox than in IE.
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JAC
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:15 am Post subject: |
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| Some good names. Thanks. Once its finally assembled into the case, there will be a piece of artwork trim to go on the front panel. I'll put a name there. |
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wepwawet
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:19 am Post subject: |
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......novel
.....vintage
...mixed
......time
.......expressor |
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gshv
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:30 am Post subject: |
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YouTube ... scratch it, it's taken
YouClock
or better, yet -
YouNix
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andamus
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From you nickname :
Just-A-Clock |
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wepwawet
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looks much better than in the first video:-)
How many hours did you work on it?
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JAC
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| wepwawet wrote: | looks much better than in the first video:-)
How many hours did you work on it? |
It looks about 100x better in front of you. When it is completely finished in the case I'll do another video with something better than a small pocket recorder.
I spent many .. many.. many hours. As a starting point, the very first work was started about 5 years ago. First with decoding the time signal ( I like clocks to maintain their own time). This is actually the 2nd generation. I had another clock I almost finished, but didnt like the tube interface, so I did it all over again. Long periods of time went by when I didnt do anything on the clock... overall I would say I have spent about 3-4 weeks on it, but that includes time spent getting to grips with learning more programming and experimenting with various chips and ideas.
I chose the 16 tube idea because I could use the posts in the tube as colons, and I havent seen another clock like it. Lots of generic simple clock circuits out there. Yah its ok to "assemble" a kit you buy, but much more fun to totally build it up from nothing. I have plenty of code space to put a ton of stuff in there to keep the tubes busy. The circuit is actually massive overkill for simple numeral nixie tubes. I designed it to work with multisegment tubes/led arrays/vfd's etc.. they offer more options. |
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kosmokrator
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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what use for timer/clock count?
mcu? or other solution? fpga? or all is on custom ttl logic ? 
nice output btw...keeep it up! |
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