Join us on Wednesday, October 28th at noon Pacific for The Art of Nixies Hack Chat with Dalibor Farný! When they were invented in the 1950s, Nixie tubes were a huge leap forward in display technology.

[Andrew] built a light box for an exhibition last year that displayed different colors statically. After showing it off, it went unchanged but future improvements remained in the back of his mind.

A 4-pin plastic base with glass T-shaped envelope. Radiation symbol stamped on envelope. Donor’s card reads: “Cold cathode tube made by Western Electric for use in modern [about 1962] telephone ...

Old is new again as tiny mechanical contactors outperform solid-state switches, monolithic inductors for power conversion, ...

Vancouver Island artist Kyle Miller has found a new use for an old technology, using Soviet-era , cold cathode Nixie tubes to build displays for handmade, steampunk clocks. "The biggest appeal of a ...

David Manners has more than forty-years experience writing about the electronics industry, its major trends and leading players. As well as writing business, components and research news, he is the ...

In a quest for cheap under-cabinet lighting, the owner of the kitchen pictured above turned to cold-cathode tubes intended for the inside of a PC case. The result of his experimenting is a kitchen ...

A cold cathode is a cathode in a gas-filled electron tube that is not heated by a filament. The voltage potential within the tube is sufficient to ionize the gas and cause the current to flow. For ...

Hi, I bought a pair of these lights for PC's which are supposedly cold cathode tubes (in a funky blue colour).<BR>What I am noticing is that when the CPU is fairly busy, the lights flicker a bit. Its ...