Elektor 6 Digit GPS Synchronized Nixie Clock DIY kit 

I fricking love your vids :DDD Your humour combined with great visuals and really interesting projects is just amazing content. Thank you!

Lol, lovely how you opened the box with a knife when it can just be folder open. Definitely slightly triggered the OCD in me :)

I expected an off camera scream when you faded out for the manual wave soldering technique. Very nice clock kit, and superb build as expected.

I built this kit a few years ago. It's still running well and I'm very happy with it although the price was ridiculously expensive and it didn't even include the IN-12's. I also ordered the acrylic case and I added blue LED's to jazz it up a bit. All essential! While building my clock I found out that one of my IN-12 NIXIE tubes had failed. If you really want to post a useful video show what a Pain-In-The-Arse it is to unsolder the tube and replace it! Still it's all worth the effort. Really fantastic!

Seeing that issue of ELEKTUUR brought back some memories; I was still in Holland in the military when that came out.

Nice editing. Even better humor. Thanks for the entertainment.

Danke für den Tipp mit der Beigelehre.

Thanks. I received my first magazine today.

A good day starts by getting a new video notification from you

Dayum that is a nice bit of kit. About your Formant adventure, might want to subscribe to the synth-diy mailinglist.

Excellent editing skills and a great kit. It must have taken a lot of care and time to achieve the effect of the PCB self populating, clever!

Nixies? Elektor magazine? ... i totally jump in, you won a new subscriber best regards!

Marco, have a look at the updates to this great little clock project on the Elektor site. Great video!

Thank you for the great videos! I love the humor; made me late for work ;-) !

I am a completly noob about electronics. But these videos are very entertaining ! 👍

When you slide the blue resistor into the board at 3:36, I felt a slight tingling in my foot.

Nixies & GPS -- now that's relevant to my interests :)

Very nice kit! I want a kit like this so bad, but I can't get my head around the price of these things .. but awesome video ones again!

Great kit! But eye-wateringly expensive.

Nice video. Humor is on point. Ich hätte nie gedacht dass man Lötzinn mit einem Plastikbecher auffangen kann. Muss ich auch Mal ausprobieren 😱😂

I also don't like carbon resistors! Nice Video and cool build!

Nice life hack, I'm gonna try it!

Wow, awesome! 😀

i love your humor :-)

Techmoan would love this

4:15 I was like "wuuuuuuuuuut? no way" xD

You are in my top 3 youtubers list yo. Very much like your videos.

amazing pcb holder

I once made a synchronized nixie clock without a processor and completely dead bug . It synced with the lab-light switch. Every time I switched the lights on the clock changed time :-)

Thanks for sharing :-)

1:25 oh, god! it's a vintage old soviet indicators "ИН12-А", AFAIK they have not been produced since about 1989.

Matte black always screams sex appeal, something that will never change.

im not an nixie exper, but i remember there beeing a need to shuffle the digits around from time to time in order to preven cathode poisoning or something they might have to add one or two lines to their script

Marco I really like your videos. You have fantastic voice, as ham radio operators says BBC audio voice perfect for narration. By the way where did you get the bender for resistors ?

Elektor sent a kit out for review,, that's a first.

That’s cool! I have a question though, if I wanted to grow a 1% metal resistor plant, what kind of soil do I need? If I just throw in a few staples when I water it would that work?

Great video, thanks! I now have the same kit and missing the documentation. Do you have a link to the pdf file?

Damn, i need such a good old "Biegelehre"! It reminds me somehow on my good old "Ausbildung zum Kommunikationselektroniker der Fachrichtung Funktechnik", what a nice short job title :-)

Wow !!! Beautiful kit !! I love you plate !!! How can find the "hot temp mod? Thanksssssss

Marco 😘 kiss from Russia soviet lamps are good and sadly the last resource of parts no one do anymore, thanks god we made many of them, because everything was working with them (like in Fallout universe all our army used them, such technologies as Commodore computer for USSR in 1980s was too advanced)

Cool. thanks for sharing it. How is the energy consumption of such thing? thanks

Very much enjoy your channel. Thank you. I chuckle to think your neighbours are reciting Tom Waits - "What's he building in there" - we've seen your bath soap collection in the projector video! With that hook light on the stairs What's he building in there? I'll tell you one thing, he's not building a playhouse for the children What's he building in there? Now what's that sound from underneath the door? He's pounding nails into a hardwood floor And I swear to God I heard someone moaning low And I keep seeing the blue light of a TV show He has a router and a table saw And you won't believe what Mr. Sticha saw There's poison underneath the sink, of course There's also enough formaldehyde to choke a horse

Beaker leaver? Lever? Whatever you call the resistor tool for bending, I have to get one of those. I will have to go shopping now. Thanks dude.

This is the first project like this that I have wanted to do myself in a long time. Any ide if sockets for the Nixie's are available form somewhere?

4:08 That container. lol

Nice build technique. What a pity they didn't include the acrylic case to make it less dangerous on display.

Does it have any PWM or digit rolling capabilities?

So how well does that GPS module receive indoors? Do you need to position it near a window? I've had difficulties getting GPS location to work inside my house -- both with cell phones and with quadcopter flight controllers. I love this concept! I wonder how difficult it would be to mod it to use NTP?

2:59 Only so Ican click it over and over and oven. Is that the sun coming up? Did you replace sleep with electronics, AGAIN?

Is it possible that the GPS Synchronized chip could eventually become defective? Therefore, would it be accurate to say that avoiding this feature altogether by instead utilizing a manual Set button would prevent the possibility of additional parts becoming defective?

i once made my own bigelehre but it goes from 4rm(4/10in) up to 20rm(2in) with evry srep in between

How does that GPS antenna work inside? I couldn't get mine to see any satellites when I installed one on my miniquad.

Can you please refer to the tools that you used for resistors bending and IC bending also. I think those are good candidates for a 3d printer project! Thanks

I'm building a differential probe just now. Can you give some details on yours? Like why did you chose AD830? I use OPA659 and power it by rechargeable batteries. Did you consider an all-round shielding on high impedance areas? I can influence mine just by putting my hand 1-2cm away. Placing it 10 cm in the vicinity of the DUT it does pick up almost every electron flying out. Do you have a simple method for trimming both for frequency response and CMRR?

Where did u get that awesome helping stand?? :D

Well now I want a clock and a pin bender thingy...and a hot plate...

I would like to take a look at the pfd file but can't find it on the web. Does anybody know where i can get it?

Watching people assemble thru-hole boards in 2018... brrrrrr... :) We wish update on K2001 OLED-edition :D

4:12 I tried that and burned my hand and legs!

Moin! Schickes Video! Wo bekomme ich den IC Beinchen Biegetrimmer??

Hi marco. Is there a way to use that hot plate on pcbs which already have through-hole components instaled? Because it would not sit flat on the surface. (I mean for preheating the board, not reflowing). Kind regards.

Hello, could you please upload gerber file for PCB v1.1? It is not available on Elektor site... Thank you

Currently bulding my own Nixie Clock with the same tubes , mine will be multiplexed! Using an Arduino and two 74141 which i found in my Dads Ic-Bin, those went straight in to my Lab, LOL. Mine will have 6 Digites aswell and timekeeping is done by an RTC.Two question tho, does the kit have some means of protection against Cathode-poisoning ? e.g Slotmachine effect or simmilar ? And second does it adjust for Summmer and Winter time ?

Methinks the nixie driver ICs are not 74141s but Russian K155ID1s - complete with KGB-instigated hacking interfaces...

how is that tool called to pre-bend the resistors at 03:37 ?

So, anybody got a link for that IC lead former? My google, ebay, and aliexpress searches aren't turning anything up. I'm sure it's something i can make out of some chunks of plastic, bolts, springs, etc, but i don't see so much as a diy blog.

Hi, I tried your method with the molten solder pot and messed everything up. Where can I get my refund?

Ah yeah

what is the mod needed for the high temp hot plate ? thanks. and nice video as always.

lol. Yes, an ATtiny could probably suffice, but why not use a huge monolith PIC. ;)

Always an admirer! Can't find those resistor benders in the whole galaxy, any info?

Could you make a video about a DIY satellite receiver with household stuff (an antenna)?

3:27 WHY have i never heared of that!

I wonder why digits are spaced so evenly.. Grouping by 2 would look better

No idea what a bugelere is, but I need one.

4:18 ughh.... can we get uncensored vid? I dont mind if you have to redo recording with new kits :)

0:27 wh... Why did he open the box like that

Okay "this old great Scott"

Whats the power consumption? Seems to me like its going to be way too much?

They still make the tubes over here in Russia

Haha, wer versucht "wave soldering" auf diese Weise nachzumachen, hat bestimmt auch ein Loch in sein iPhone 7 gebohrt, um den Kopfhöreranschluss wiederzukriegen! ;-)

I've always wanted to own one of these but the price is always too high for me to justify it.

😂😂 please stand by...😂😂😂 U funny..

Top Video, aber bitte das nächste mal in deutsch. Nicht weil man es nicht versteht, sondern weil Aussprache bzw Betonung scheußlich ist. Sorry

No cathode depoisoning? Bad kit, it'll kill the tubes in no time.

did you actually wave solder this board?

Why wouldn't they put a pair of stacked leds between the numbers, like every other click in the world has used!?! (":" rather than the single led.) That's irritating.

This isn't what I would qualify as being cheap ! I don't recall spending that much money on a DIY kit ! Granted, it looks nice to some extent but the price tag is rather a turn off, at least for me. To whoever can afford it, by all means, enjoy it !

Am I seeing things, or is there a bad 2 digit in decimal minute tube at 5:41?

Lamps that Russians!!! )))

hi how you spell this bigggggkeliren??

man is das teuer :(

3:29 - No, it does not pre-bend, it bends. Pre-bending would be some initial bending that will be followed up by more bending later. Or, to use the words of the great late George Carlin: "There are only two states component legs can possibly exist in, bent or unbent! Pre-bending is a meaningless fucking term!"

Ah, so wasteful to use so many 74141 chips when they could have used one of them and a small forest of transistors

German engineering ;)

Not quite but almost totally unconnected, for those who cannot solder and don't want to expose their children to high voltages, check out the recent "lixie" clock reviewed by techmoan, another great youtube channel. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-miqN2gR1Zns.html

What's wrong with carbon resistors lmao

лампы отвратительно подобраны-в подобных наборах собираются 1 к 1 лампа а не таким образом

3:20 Right in the POVERTY ARGGGH. also right in the shity-customs-regulations-that-make-it-really-hard-to-buy-quality-components

Was the video sponsored in any way? You finish the video by thinking elektor. Does that mean the $200 kit was send to you at no charge? That is the kind of information that should be at the beginning of a video, not at the end...