All-tube digital clock, seven years in the making
Posted Jun 26th 2006 4:25PM by Tom Whitwell
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household
Nixie clocks, which use little vacuum tubes to display the numbers,
have been around for a while. Geeks build them, hipsters put them in
their lofts, and they range from very cool to not so cool.
Now Friedhelm Bruegmann, a member of the German Tube Collectors
Association, has spent seven years of his life putting together an
all-tube digital clock. Instead of a little quartz module, he uses 103
tubes to calculate and display the time. Yes, it looks like a small
army of pointy silver-headed robots. No, it's not for sale, but
Friedhelm's site is so detailed, you can probably hack one together
yourself in a decade or so.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/26/all- ... l-clock-se ven-years-in-the-making/
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http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbr ... ann-Digita l-Roehren-Clock/Digital-Roehrenuhr.htm
Den er jo smuk! Omend lidt stor...men den lyder sikkert dejligt varmt når klokken slår hel
