After a few attempts, the Nixie tubes, their 3mm blue LEDs and associated wires were properly seated. [hellboy] urges strong caution when working with the power supply for these Nixie tubes, ...

There’s no denying the retro appeal of the warm glow of a set of Nixies, and when a friend was looking for a unique touch for the case of his new liquid-cooled PC, [Luca] pitched in with this… ...

Called Nixie, this is a flying camera that straps on like a watch, but can dismount from your arm, shoot into the sky, take a photo, and fly right back again (thanks to a range of sensors powered ...

Sadly, you can’t get your paws on the Nixie just yet, though it did qualify for $50,000 from Intel, so we are crossing our fingers that someday soon we will all have our own personal video drone ...

The half-human half-fish Nixie may look very familiar at first. But these shape-shifting monsters with their eerie songs that lure humans to the watery depths are much older, and much scarier ...

Nixie (“Numeric Indicator eXperimental No. 1”) tubes were displays used for digital readouts before the advent of the LED. Popular with James Bond villains who wanted to rule the world yet ...

The gorgeous Nixie tube chess set made by Tony Adams is now being made available as a limited number of self-build kits.

Measures 48-mm wide and 53-mm tall, and only 16-mm thick (6mm thinner than the original round Nixie watch) Available in black, red, blue, violet, ...

Before dot-matrix displays took over the known world, Nixie tubes — glass lightbulbs containing light-up tubes for the digits 0-9 — were the best way of. Skip to content Search .

Old Nixie tubes hacked into glowing, electric chess set. Nixie tubes aren’t exactly the most cutting-edge technology, but there’s something to be said for their retro-futuristic glow and style.