geek_Clock
After seeing the abundance of nixie tube clocks online, I decided to see how hard it would be to build a simple clock using a 8-bit serial LCD that I had left over from one of my other micro-controller projects. Maybe sometime in the future I can work on a more complicated nixie tube design. I am currently using the Arduino Nano micro-controller to get the logic and circuit setup properly. I will attempt to design and etch my own PCB using either an Atmega168 or ATtiny micro-controller once the coding is locked down. Overall this project shouldn’t be too technically challenging, but the programming would be the most time consuming portion of this project. The plan is to have a battery backup to keep the time in a power outage, a temperature probe to display ambient room temperature, an basic alarm function, and lastly a script to automatically sync the time (NTP) when plugged up to a computer via USB. I will be releasing the full source code, schematics, and board layout files once everything is completed.
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