Edge-lit LED Nixie Tube Style Display

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Edge-lit LED Nixie Tube Style Display


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Made with ten layers of edge-lit acrylic, Jürgen Grau’s numeric display is a low-voltage facsimile of the old school Nixie Tube displays that so many of us are enamored with. [via Hack a Day]

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12 thoughts on “Edge-lit LED Nixie Tube Style Display

  1. Timothy Gray says:

    Polish and paint the edges of the acrylic with silver paint and it reflects more of the light back to the center to make the etched numbers brighter and eliminates more of the light spill from the edges.

  2. Jeffrey says:

    Ok, I’ll kick in $20 for Kickstarter on this! :D

  3. MAKE | Pitches with Prototypes: Lumiglass Infinity by ProtoTank says:

    […] contest. Next up is the Lumiglass Infinity sign by ProtoTank. We have featured a few variations of edge-lit displays before, but the ProtoTank team has turned it up a notch with their unique […]

  4. Pitches with Prototypes: Lumiglass Infinity by ProtoTank - IT Clips says:

    […] contest. Next up is the Lumiglass Infinity sign by ProtoTank. We have featured a few variations of edge-lit displays before, but the ProtoTank team has turned it up a notch with their unique […]

  5. MAKE | Make a Glass Nixie-Like Display with LEDs says:

    […] plates stacked atop each other, with SMT LEDs lighting them up individually — similar to this display we blogged last […]

  6. Make a Glass Nixie-Like Display with LEDs - IT Clips says:

    […] glass plates stacked atop each other, with SMT LEDs lighting them up individually — similar to this display we blogged last […]

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