{"id":12,"date":"2008-07-31T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tubetime.us\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-07-31T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:06:50","slug":"nixie-steampunk-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/2008\/07\/31\/nixie-steampunk-pendant\/","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\" 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\" 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":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80Z1r-c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}