History

The Nixie Watch was a huge success. I managed to build and sell about two hundred watches by the summer of 2009. At that time, I tried to buy more...

I decided to go back to my previous design, which has worked reliably for years. This required a redesign of the PC board, but I had already designed a board...

After all this was designed in June 2004, I took the case design files to my local machinist. He quoted four weeks delivery of some prototype cases. I gave him...

The insides still had to be worked out, although I was working on both the PC boards and the case at the same time, as one has to do with...

So it sat around for another year until I got the wild idea to ask the NeoNixie list for help in designing the case. I ended up working with John Smout of...

Around Easter of 2003, I had taken up the nixie watch design torch again with the discovery of a new battery made by Panasonic - a lithium-ion rechargeable coin cell...

I was at a birthday party in May 2015 and my nephew suggested that I look for sealed USB connectors. I found one at Digi-Key that looked good, so I...

I got the urge to design a thin, rechargeable Nixie watch in 2011. I collaborated with Melinda Maerker who had useful ideas about the shape and styling. Thus, the case design with...