There’s little denying that Nixie tubes are cool. Effectively, possibly not cool — maybe it’s their heat and glowing traits which have drawn generations of {hardware} tinkerers to them like moths to a Nixie flame. They aren’t all the time notably simple to work with although and the EasyNixie has been designed to decrease the technical obstacles to this cool retro tech.

The EasyNixie is an Arduino-compatible module that enables Nixie tube management with 3 or 4 IO pins and system energy. Nixie tubes require excessive voltages to run and the EasyNixie cleverly makes use of a 2-stage voltage boosting system to spice up the three.3 or 5V to 12V after which enhance the 12V as much as 180V. With 3 pins you possibly can management the Nixie tube show however the extra 4th pin means that you can add dimming capabilities.

The boards, equipped absolutely assembled, are stackable so it’s simpler to make a neat management system for a a number of Nixie tube challenge.  Talking of initiatives, the EasyNixie has an Arduino Library. Over on the repository, there are quite a few examples starting from a Nixie show Geiger counter to a Nixie multimeter and extra.

There’s a video and extra data over on the product web page and it’s value trying out the EasyNixie Hackaday.io challenge web page for extra examples, photos and among the again story of the event of this incredible board!