Away
Shan’t be around for a few days. Back on the 1st, or possibly the 2nd.
Nixie the Third
So… the Nixie clock is finished! Putting in the Nixie tubes was the most fiddly part of the entire project: Threading the Nixies through did require a lot of patience… Soldering the Nixies was also quite fiddly. Clock more or less finished now… Back of the clock, so you can see all the circuitry: Then [...]
Nixie Tubes Part 2
Work continues apace on the Nixie clock: Just started work, yesterday. All the resistors now mounted. The board mostly populated; all that remains are transistors, a few regulators and neons, and the Nixies themselves (along with a few miscellaneous components). I’m actually done with the board now, I’ve just to perform some tests and then [...]
The End of a Century
So. Barely ten years on, The Project for a New American Century is over. As the BBC’s Paul Reynolds put it, “The Project for the New American Century” has been reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website. A single employee has been left to wrap things up. Things are bleak elsewhere. George Bush [...]
In Soviet Russia, Nixie Tube Incorporates YOU!
Winterfest/Winterval/Festivus/Christmas/Hannukah/Eid holiday/vaction/duration project: A Nixie clock! Nice electronic kit incorporating old Soviet-era Nixies: Complete with datasheet in Cyrillic! Nixie tubes on Wikipedia
Never mind.
Turbo Speciality Sports – Starion!(Thanks to Jalopnik for that…) Oops… broke the site layout with that. Now fixed. Bah, I’ll do it tomorrow. So much for Super Potential!
Comments
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VAG becomes PAG?
Continuing the vaguely… er… incestuous back-history that Porsche and VW have got going*, it appears that Porsche wishes to spin off Audi (and associated brands Lamborghini, Bentley, and for some reason Bugatti (which is owned by VW, not Audi, but is still part of the all-encompassing VW Group)) into a luxury brands division, purchase them [...]
Child’s Play 2006
Just a reminder that Child’s Play 2006 is underway and going strong!
Baby got a bra
I got a car bra (a vinyl cover) for my [tag]GTI[/tag] to protect her from stone chips… her bonnet is already covered with 2 years worth of chips from excessive motorway and autobahn driving, so it seemed to me to be a sensible investment. Plus, I think it looks quite good; adds that US-tuner look [...]
