From pinball pianos to nixie tube chess sets, a celebration of uncommon devices and the artists, Makers and outsider engineers who create them
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
MATRIXSYNTH: The HELMHOLTZ SOUND SYNTHESIZER. HELMHOLTZ, HERMAN...
MATRIXSYNTH: The HELMHOLTZ SOUND SYNTHESIZER. HELMHOLTZ, HERMAN...: Up for auction on Bonhams Lot 245W Y HELMHOLTZ SOUND SYNTHESIZER. HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN VON. 1821-1894. Chemnitz: Max Kohl, c.1905. US$ ...
Monday, 22 September 2014
Sunday, 31 August 2014
Cold War Dekatron and Nixie Tube Clock
"When it comes to hobby projects, clocks have always been one of my favorites. I've made them with LEDs, planar neon displays, monodigichrons, some with microprocessors, FPGAs, TTL logic, etc, but this time I wanted to make a dekatron and nixie tube clock with a minimum of solid state components, except for maybe a few germanium diodes. As I thought through the design, the cold war theme developed along with some specific goals I had for the project ... "
Operation: Hourglass.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)