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Thursday, March 11, 2021
CONTINUITY: From the 1960s—A Seven-Segment Neon Nixie Tube Emulator
This is amazing: a direct replacement for Nixie tubes that provides a seven-segment flat display using light pipes, neon bulb illumination, and a diode logic decode matrix to convert digit signals to segment encoding. The drive voltage is sufficiently high that the voltage drop in the diodes isn't a problem.
Posted at March 11, 2021 13:32