I’ve just assembled both PCB boards of my talking nixie clock together and went ‘whoa, this thing IS really beautiful!’.  Check it out below, electronics porn at its best!

The first two pictures were taken with a flash to get good details, the last one without, hence a poorer picture quality. But you at least get the idea how those nixie puppies shine!

Later I’ll get my documentation together and create a proper project page with all schematics, pcbs, source codes, better pictures etc etc.

I am working on a talking clock with a remote IR control. The idea is that when I awake at night I don’t have my  glasses on, hence I cannot recognize digits on a clock display. So I figured out that what I need is a talking clock that could tell me the time aloud. The audible announcement is triggered by a button press on a standard infrared remote, normally used to control my hi-fi equipment.