Numitron Tube Watch With 3D Printed Case
Inventor Johannes designed his own watch using Numitron tubes mounted to 900 soldered PCBs.
The watches case was 3D printed using transparent PLM filament.
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Cardboard tube battle
My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting.
The Boston Globe covered the preparations:
The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party.
The weapons are cylindrical pieces of thick cardboard about 4 feet long. The appeal, explains young-adult librarian Ellen Snoeyenbos: “It’s totally ridiculous.”
As word of mock combat with reliably harmless weaponry spread among the town’s youthful warriors, Snoeyenbos and the Bookmarks seized on the fund-raiser as a chance to exploit their discovery of the fighting fad made popular by YouTube.
Saturday’s event will feature one-on-one tournaments, guild-on-guild skirmishes (up to 10 fighters per team), “and an all-out battle for possession of the Royal Crown,” according to the club.
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Bringing a ’20s radio back to life
Got an old radio from the ’20s, and want to bring it back to life? Well, the quickest way is probably be to remove all those dusty components and use the cabinet to hide a new stereo. That’s not what radio hacker Greg Charvat had in mind for his, though.
Continue ReadingDekatron tube sequencer
Cirtcele built a synth sequencer module using a dekatron vacuum tube display – The clock circuit includes a relay which clacks away somewhat charmingly. The relay noise does not get into the sound path of the synth, it is just the noise the synth makes whilst operating. Sound is recorded over the camera’s microphone so […]
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Toilet paper tube faces
At last, something to do with that pile of toilet paper tubes you’ve been saving all these years! (There’s no point denying it; we know how you are.) Then again, you’d be lucky to have the mad skillz of sculptor Junior Jacquet, who’s made a career out of sculpting cardboard. His toilet paper tube faces, […]
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Home-brewed iPod tube amp and speakers for Xmas
Peter Redmer, of Caffeinated Pixels, is one happy little wirehead. For Christmas this year, his dad, an electrical engineer, built him a tube amp and a set of speakers for his iPod. Here’s dad on the specs: Amplifier: In order to keep the design small, I am using a hybrid design for the amplifier. A […]
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Handmade radios as objets d’art
Mister Jalopy hipped us to these amazing handmade radios from Tom Kipgen. The triangular wonder above is called Radio Moscow (’cause the finned brass plate cap Tom fabbed reminded him of Russian onion domes). As Mister J points out, for something this beautifully crafted, the asking price is a song. Wander the site for other […]
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