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Miscellaneous Debris => Tech Corner => Topic started by: SLOweather on March 18, 2017, 12:32:12 PM

Title: Make your own Nixie style LED driven displays
Post by: SLOweather on March 18, 2017, 12:32:12 PM
I found this on Instructables.com (http://www.instructables.com/id/Glass-nixie/):

(https://cdn.instructables.com/FAM/41V8/HEQER0CY/FAM41V8HEQER0CY.MEDIUM.jpg?width=614)

Basically, it's a stack of 10 edge lit clear plastic panes, each dimpled with the outline of a digit, and then edge lit with an SMD LED.

For a home brew weather station, you could easily make whatever custom characters you need as well. (+, -, °, direction letters, arrows, MPH, etc)

I was thinking about this after reading an article regarding using Numitron displays in Nuts And Volts. Numitrons are 7 segment displays made of filaments, like light bulbs but not as bright.

(http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/numitron.jpg)