Nixie Tubes contain layers of wire mesh anode/cathodes bent into the shape of various numbers/letters. The Cathodes take the shape of the characters. Developed by Burroughs Corporation in 1955, the Nixie Tube reigned supreme until the 1970s when LED character displays took over. However, there has been a resurgence of Nixie based development. Although mostly for , I am glad the old technology hasn't died completely.
Tim, at theTransistor.com, is providing us all with the schematic and Arduino source code to make our own Nixie Tube based display. You can see an elaborate tutorial at his site here: http://thetransistor.com/projects/tims-nixie-display/
The only aspect of his tutorial I couldn't find is the most important one, where did he get those Tubes?
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