Collaborate Disseminate
It wasn’t long after the development of the LED that LED watches became available. They were prized for their clear light output and low power draw. Neon bulbs, on the …read more Continue reading Neon Watch Glows Rather Nicely, Tells Time
In the days before every piece of equipment was an internet-connected box with an OLED display, engineers had to be a bit more creative with how they chose to communicate …read more Continue reading Noble Graphs: Displaying Data With Neon Like Its 1972
Remember fax machines? They used to be all the rage, and to be honest it was pretty cool to be able to send images back and forth over telephone lines. …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Putting Pictures on the Wire in the 1930s
Neon lamps are fun and beautiful things. Hackers do love anything that glows, after all. But producing them can be difficult, requiring specialized equipment like ovens and bombarders to fill …read more Continue reading Making Neon Trees The Easy Way With No Oven Pumps Required
It’s easy to see why LEDs largely won out over neon bulbs for pilot light applications. But for all the practical utility of LEDs, they’re found largely lacking in at …read more Continue reading Neon Lamps — Not Just for Pilot Lights
We think of digital displays as something you see on relatively modern gear. But some old gear had things like nixies or numitrons to get cool-looking retro digital displays. The …read more Continue reading Frequency Counter Restoration Impeded by Kittens
On our news feeds and TV channels at the moment are many stories concerning the war in Ukraine, and among them is one which may have an effect on the …read more Continue reading Neon, Ukraine, And The Global Semiconductor Industry
Ah, the humble neon lamp. The familiar warm orange glow has graced the decks of many a DIY timepiece, sometimes in a purely indicating duty, and sometimes forming a memory …read more Continue reading The Humble NE-2 Neon Lamp Has A New Trick
We always enjoy history videos from [The History Guy] but they don’t always cover technology history. When they do, though, we enjoy them twice as much as with the recent …read more Continue reading The History of Neon Lights
Join us on Wednesday, October 28th at noon Pacific for The Art of Nixies Hack Chat with Dalibor Farný!
When they were invented in the 1950s, Nixie tubes were a huge leap forward in display technology. In the days before affordable LEDs made seven-segment displays a commodity, there were few …read more