Big Nixie tubes certainly make a nice looking clock – although why I find them good-looking, I am not completely sure. Anyway, the tubes are pretty expensive now, but the author of the TechMoan YouTube blog has come across an alternative that gets the Nixie look, without any vacuum tubes at all, instead using a stack …
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