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Steampunked nixie-tube-switch

Steampunked nixie-tube-switch
Hi everybody

I promised you to show in this instructable my next astonishing steampunk aparatus. It is called: "Steampunked Nixie-tube-switch"

or in german: "Junhophor-Plasma-Kraftstärkeregler".




My first instructable is an steampunk Plasma-converter. This object needs a switch-component and an telegraphing machine to send the created plasma beams around the world. So here ist comes

The switch:
 
 
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Step 1Starting with the nixie-tube

starting with the nixie-tube
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12 comments
Oct 3, 2011. 3:18 PMSeamusDubh says:
Pretty cool.
Also nice to see a "true" (non arduino) electronics project.
Jan 22, 2012. 2:14 AMdiy_bloke says:
Haha, an arduino is just as much electronics as other projects, but yeah, why use email if you still can have a letter delivered by stagecoach and sure, vinyl records sound better than CD's.
Oct 4, 2011. 10:24 AMim3733 says:
I agree, microcontrollers feel like cheating for some of these projects.
Oct 4, 2011. 4:48 AMneuropol says:
Arduino uses fake electronics.
Oct 4, 2011. 4:17 PMpfred2 says:
Non-union electrons I hear!
Oct 4, 2011. 3:09 PMSeamusDubh says:
No, in my opinion (like im3733's) it's kind of a cheat.
Why do and or understand basic electronics if all you're gonna do is slap a computer in there.
Apr 23, 2012. 5:48 AMmlah says:
Because as much as DIYers like to believe doing something the hard/complicated way doesn't make it better. You slap the computer in there to simplify your life so you can spend time building and designing the complex systems. Its not cheating its using the right tool for the right job.
Apr 26, 2012. 2:49 AMunderground carpenter says:
I agree with mlah. It's not "cheating" to use the latest tech to build something. It's just a different way of doing it. That said, I've always found it useful to learn "how it was done in the old days" so that I have a better comprehension of what I'm trying to do and how it works.

In woodworking, we refer to refusing (as much as possible) to use power tools as "neanderthal woodworking." So refusing to use arduinos is "neanderthal electronics." It's not wrong, just a different way.
Oct 4, 2011. 11:00 PMHoratius.Steam says:
Good Morning,

as I told you on the phone, this is really amazing.


With kind regards,

H. Steam
Oct 4, 2011. 10:42 PMdawsonj says:
RESPECT!
Oct 4, 2011. 8:15 AMdrbill says:
I remember the first commercially available Calculator. It was played up on the news in the morning that they were for sale in NYC. I took down the address and went to see it. Had to go by train alone and NYC was an hour away. When I got there I saw the machine had Nixie Tubes as a readout. About 15 of them. I wanted one so bad but they were a little out of my price range at ten years old. Only $2000 dollars.
Oct 3, 2011. 8:50 PMelectfire says:
Wow, I would have though that Nixie tubes were beyond my capabilities,but something similar to this setup I could do! Thanks for the inspiration (and indirect encouragement!) and as always keep up the awesome work!

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Author:Junophor(www.Dampfkraftlabor.de)
I love to invent and create new things in a "steampunk styled way" working with brass, copper, vulcanized-fiber, brass gears and (ply)- wood. On one side I am fascinated in neon lights and small elec...
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