After a long time of doing mostly virtual (software) stuff, I felt it was time for another hardware project. I’ve always been fascinated by the old Nixie tubes, and had ordered a bunch of them before they get too expensive or become impossible to find. The obvious thing to use them for is a clock. I wanted to go for a mix of old (the Nixies) and new, so the clock is driven by a Raspberry Pi – meaning it will have WiFi and NTP so I never need to update it to the correct time even on daylight savings changes.

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