Monday, June 21, 2021

NixieBot – The Nixie Tube Robot Sculpture

Originally shared on our Show & Tell, this project from Sideburn Studios totally blew us out of the water. So well done!

This was a collaboration between me and my pops. He did the artwork and I did the electronics. The sculpture plays random machine sounds, has blinking LED eyes, and two weird Russian Nixie tubes embedded in his forehead. It’s got a rechargeable lipo inside with a usb-c charging jack hidden in a sliding door under the frame. Runtime is about two hours or you can leave it plugged into a charger and run continuously. The Nixie tube controller board is the same PCB I designed for the Nixie Dice but with different firmware loaded into it.

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