Swiss chocolates

[newxito]

I was asked by a friend to build a cheap nixie clock. That's the result, the 48 Swiss chocolates in this box were much more expensive than the clock :-)

[Terry S]

Sweet! 

[Mike McCauley]

Nice build! Unique!

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 5:48:39 AM UTC-6, newxito wrote:

[J Forbes]

It has much more taste than my old Cigar box Nixie clock.

http://selectric.org/nixie/cigar.jpg

[Terry S]

SMOKIN' !!

[newxito]

Nice cigar box clock! In my case, I was not able to cut a decent rectangle out of the wood, every time I tried to make a correction it got worse and worse, a nightmare... finally the 3D printer had to save the project

[John Rehwinkel]

It has much more taste than my old Cigar box Nixie clock.

Heh, I used a cigar box for my nixie divergence meter too, but I wrapped it in dryer duct tape.

- John

[Nicholas Stock]

Nice one Terry...that made me chuckle....

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[Terry Kennedy]

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 6:48:39 AM UTC-5, newxito wrote:

I was asked by a friend to build a cheap nixie clock. That's the result, the 48 Swiss chocolates in this box were much more expensive than the clock :-)

Nice. BTW, a handy tip - if you don't have the official ribbon cable cutting tool, you can crimp the connector as shown in your picture and then run a NEW, SHARP razor blade / box-cutter blade along the connector body to slice off the ribbon cable "tail". It takes a little practice to get the angle right, but you end up with a much cleaner connector. If the cut leaves wire "whiskers", your blade is either too dull or you're cutting at the wrong angle. 

[newxito]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. The official cutting tools I've found cut only up to 56mm, but my ribbon cable is 80mm wide, so it needs 2 cuts. I should have designed my boards with 2 x 32 connectors…

[newxito]

What I meant was that I should have designed the boards with two separate 32 pin connectors...