{"id":10,"date":"2008-07-31T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tubetime.us\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-07-31T21:48:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:48:03","slug":"nixie-steampunk-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Nixie Steampunk Pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody at Maker Faire was interested in Nixie tube jewelry that actually lit up. I decided to take up the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The hard part is not making everything small, but making it last a long time on a single battery. In this case, the battery is a CR2032 lithium coin cell. A small circuit takes the 3 volts and steps it up to about 150V which is barely enough to light the Nixie tube. Theoretically it should last around 10 hours or so.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Nixie Steampunk Pendant by eschlaep, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tubetime\/2539954020\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3208\/2539954020_a683f9426e.jpg\" alt=\"Nixie Steampunk Pendant\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe socket was constructed using my custom-made Dremel drill press. To figure out where to drill the holes, I put some clay on top of the wood and pressed the pins of the Nixie tube into the clay. Then it was a simple matter to mark the pin holes, remove the clay, and drill. The pins are actually from a DB25 solder tail socket, since they fit the Nixie pins perfectly.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Nixie Steampunk Pendant by eschlaep, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tubetime\/2539954030\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2004\/2539954030_490904eb7c.jpg\" alt=\"Nixie Steampunk Pendant\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe power supply circuit has its problems, and I am trying to improve on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody at Maker Faire was interested in Nixie tube jewelry that actually lit up. I decided to take up the challenge. The hard part is not making everything small, but making it last a long time on a single battery. In this case, the battery is a CR2032 lithium coin cell. A small circuit takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}