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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2006/09/26 @ 2:08 pm
Category Art & Design, Electronics

Rob sent in this sweet nixie clock, he writes – “If you’ve built a nixie clock, and are looking around for your next challenge, and happen to have an atomic clock sitting there doing nothing, then get busy. “ – Link.

Glowie:

HOW TO – Powering Nixie Tubes… – Link.
Maker of the day – David Forbes, Nixie-display clocks … – Link.
IN14 Nixie clock kit – Link.
Nixie clocks & kits for collectors and designers – Link.
Nixie Build – The case – Link.

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BY Phillip Torrone

Editor at large - Make magazine. Creative director - Adafruit Industries, contributing editor - Popular Science. Previously: Founded - Hack-a-Day, how-to editor - Engadget, Director of product development - Fallon Worldwide, Technology Director - Braincraft.

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2 Responses to The most accurate nixie clock – ATOMIC!

tomaco59 on September 26th, 2006 at 12:40 pm said:

This would make a good addition to The World’s Most Accurate Wristwatch.

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Windell_Oskay on September 26th, 2006 at 2:02 pm said:

I’ve seen this before, but I find it endlessly reassuring that I’m not the only one with a nixie clock and atomic clock at home. =)

When I worked in the NIST Time and Frequency division, I once hooked up a nixie clock that I built to be driven by an output from one of the hydrogen masers in the NIST atomic clock ensemble, which is periodically steered by the cesium fountain standard. Now that was an accurate nixie clock!

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