Sorry if this has been already covered, but there don't seem to be any buttons to control it? set time, configure etc. ? But I don't do 'Pi' so maybe there is something I am missing.
Pete On Monday, September 22, 2025 at 7:43:56 PM UTC+1 Florian van der Dussen wrote: > I’m a 21-year-old Mechanical Engineering student and have always wanted to > own a Nixie clock. Since buying a fully assembled one is out of my budget, > I ignorantly figured, “How hard can it be to build one myself?” > > Well… turns out, a bit harder than I expected. > > This is one of my first real electronics projects, and I’m designing a > custom PCB despite having almost no electrical engineering background. I’ve > completed my first version of the board, but I’m honestly nervous about > ordering it. The idea of running 170V through something I designed feels > like a recipe for frying every single thing I have on my desk. > > I’m keeping it as simple as possible: just a hh:mm:ss display. I did add a > light sensor to dim the display based on ambient light (saw someone do this > in a video and thought it was neat). I used KiCAD and autorouting for most > of the tracks except the 170v net. I’m trying to make the casing compact > and clean, aiming (or better called dreaming in this case) towards > something close to the Puri Nixie Clock. > > Am I missing anything critical? Are there any other sources that I can > look at? I am expecting a lot to be wrong, so any help and tips are > welcome! > > Current PCB > > [image: Schermafbeelding 2025-09-22 203855.png] > > Current schematic: > > [image: Picture1.png] > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/82f5fcc4-f2f0-41ca-80c6-6e370532946en%40googlegroups.com.
