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Think geek clock kit
Think geek clock kit














This kit is priced at £172 (US$268) plus shipping costs. Kit builders will need to provide their own 12V/2A power supply, as well as wirecutters, sandpaper, soldering iron and such like. There's a huge printed circuit board (PCB) for the chessboard and 32 PCBs for the pieces, NOS Tufnol and phenolic resin laminate case materials, brass dome nuts, bolts and thumb nuts, enameled copper wire for the coils and 25 IN-7 Nixie tubes and 9 IN-7A flavors.

think geek clock kit

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The full Neon Jacket version includes all the components needed to build a fully working Nixie chess set. The various components necessary for the supply of a small batch of numbered kits have now been secured and there are a few kit options to choose from. They may look to be burning hot but unlike vacuum tubes, the gas-filled Nixie tubes are cool enough to handle This makes ex-Soviet Nixie gas display tubes from the 1980s a good fit for use as chess pieces, especially when air-core transformers are placed under each square of the chess board to power the tubes in a similar fashion to an induction charging system. The warm glow from a vintage Nixie tube is somewhat deceptive as not much heat is given off at all by the gas-filled tubes. Developer Tony Adams (otherwise known as Lasermad) has received such a positive response to his design that he's decided to sell a limited number as self-build kits.

think geek clock kit

Some display scientific symbols, of course, and its these Nixie tubes that have been used in the creation of the gorgeous chess board you see above. Many are used as clock displays (as evidenced by our recent coverage of the Ramos alarm clock and ThinkGeek’s DIY Nixie Tube Desk Clock kit), due to the most common tube featuring a stack of numerical cathodes. The gentle orange glow of a Nixie display tube has held a special place in the hearts of DIY device builders for as long as I can remember but they seem to be undergoing something of a mainstream revival of late.














Think geek clock kit