azog | August 27, 2005
I saw this on the Make blog, and just had to get it. You can click on the image for a fuller view. It’s about the size of a deck of cards. I won’t go into all the specs, you can get info here. I purchased it from Smiley Micros. They’re good people, never dealt [...]
azog | August 27, 2005
Finally finished the nixie clock. I guess it’s been over a month. Issues: two bad tubes win an ebay bid on a set of 6 tubes receive the tubes, they’re in-15a tubes. Russian. Really. Cyrillic letters bid on another set of tubes build a better box So the box is a recycled cigar box my [...]
azog | August 25, 2005
Saw this on one of the ubiquitous gadget blogs out there: Plastic plant, it wiggles. Whee. I have a black thumb, and end up killing all my plants, so this is fine. Got it from Compact Impact, they have a lot of cool stuff.
azog | August 22, 2005
Ok, since my Nixie clock is a temporary failure (I’m waiting delivery of some replacement tubes – two of my tubes were bad), I built a Jacob’s Ladder: This was basically a 10kv neon transformer that I got from e-bay, some wire and fixtures that I got from Home Depot, and a Dremel. Some of [...]