Zen Nixie Clock

By Andrew Gregory. Posted over 5 years ago.

This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.

This clock by Dalibor Farny is a huge piece of kit. It syncs via WiFi, so once it's set up, it will keep the correct time and automatically resume correct time after being switched off (there's also a rotary controller on the back for manual control).

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RGB LEDs mounted under the tubes give the possibility of cool effects – or, for the traditionalist, these can be disabled to keep the pure, clean glow of the Nixie filaments.

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