How to Make a Tech Watch With Nixie Tubes #WearableWednesday #Wearabletech #DIY
Nixie Tubes are the mysterious components that turn ordinary things into the fantastic, which is precisely why I’m excited about this watch I found posted on Hackaday. As you can imagine, tubes need space, and maker prototype_mechanic includes a large aluminum case fit for Tony Stark. Here’s the tech details according to the post:
The case is machined out of solid aluminum and sports a quartz glass crystal. The pair of IN-16 tubes lives behind a bezel with RGB LEDs lighting the well. There’s a 400mAh LiPo battery on board, and an accelerometer to turn the display on with a flick of the wrist.
The display actually seems to do different functions including a backlight based on the wrist flick, which adds yet another cool factor to the watch. The circuit design includes an Atmel chip, but unfortunately the maker’s drive failed, so a lot of valuable building notes are missing. What is available is posted on this Instructable. If you aren’t able to duplicate this process but you desperately want a nixie watch, the maker has a few ready to purchase. Of course if you would rather not get involved with the complexity of nixie tubes but would enjoy a large tech watch, we’ve got you covered. Have a look at our Solder: Time II DIY Watch. It’s a sandwich of acrylic and PCB, and it’s Arduino hackable with its Atmel 328P. Take advantage of a 7×20 LED matrix and piezo buzzer to make your dream DIY watch.
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Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
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