An Artemis powered Nixie Tube Watch!

Hello,

A couple months ago I posted some questions pertaining to the Artemis module.

I’m proud to present the results of my project!

A nixie tube watch,

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Solder paste stencil, courtesy of the teachings of Sparkfun’s stencil video

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Parts toasted in the toaster oven

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Girlfriend made me a cool logo :slight_smile: (it’s supposed to be an ohm symbol with little viking horns ((I know vikings didn’t have horns on their helmets in reality)))

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Seeing it come to life!

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The bottom board sitting in the 3D printed enclosure

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Some “internal” routing

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When I mixed up the RX and TX pins and a failed 3.3v switching regulator on the first version (but of course the more complex 180v boost worked great)

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The two boards stacked together

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A bunch of notification LED’s on the side, 6 for battery status and 2 for whatever I want.

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It also has a MEMS microphone like the Red Board which is working, so theoretically I can add in some ML for voice recognition to set the time or turn on a high powered LED that is to be mounted on the front of the watch.

A BQ40Z80 battery fuel gauge chip (a fancy IC that manages the batteries)

FTDI231x converter so I can program through the USB-C port

USB-C charging

180V power supply

Artemis

setup to add a high power LED extension

Way too much battery (about 24 hours of always on time)

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Wow, that is really cool! Thank you for sharing!

My pleasure! The products you guys make, made it a reality, particularly the open source aspect.

I’m in Boulder if anyone at the office is interested in seeing it in person.

Fantastic project! Thanks for stirring up the memory of working in an electronics factory in the mid-70s – at the time 7-segment LEDs had pretty muched replaced nixie tube displays, but the old nixie tubes had the advantage of being able to see “jitter” in the reading, so we kept the older instruments around.