LIXIE Clock Kit - Well not really.
Just as I was typing this paragraph another email came in asking if I'd be making a video about LIXIES, however I've already made it, and here it is.
But first, you know how some people refer to all vacuum cleaners as 'Hoovers' even the ones made by Dyson - well the same thing has happened with these Edge Lit Displays - people are now referring to them as LIXIES, when that's just the name one manufacturer has coined for them.
So this is a video about what many people would now call a LIXIE clock kit- but it's a Cronixie clock kit...hopefully the video makes more sense.
*LIXIE Edge-lit display Clock Kit - The Cronixie-M (YouTube)
Comments (22)
Nice clock Mat, if you haven't already done so, check out Fran Blanche's videos (FranLab) she reviews all sorts of vintage display technology, many of which would make wonderful clocks..
Great review... This looks really cool. I'm very tempted to get one :-)
Superb video: Potential purchasers will be happy to have the detailed and corrected instructions you provided. That is one sharp clock, and goes on my "purchase soon" list. Mat, when did you go to 2160p HD resolution? Yours are the first I've seen on YouTube to be produced with UHD resolution.
Well the first video I put out in UHD was back in 2015 <a href="https://youtu.be/i8yx3yug5lo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/i8yx3yug5lo</a> - However I only started using it regularly in 2016. I use UHD as youtube allocates much more bandwidth to the videos in this resolution, so they look better even when viewed in 1080p.
Looks like they are hesitant to ship to the US, I'll have to reach out to the seller and get the details on that. I really want to build one for my desk at work. Our part of the office is always dark because it gets super hot in the summer with the overhead lights on, so we just leave them off year round.
I very much enjoyed this video . I enjoy kit building , at the moment I am in the misted of building a stereo vu meter using "in-13 " nixie tubes . I might think about posting a video if you'd watch it although I'm not sure how good my video skills are . I hope you have a great day.
I very much like the look of IN13s -here’s a setup that Paul at Bad Dog Designs (an acquaintance) was working on. <a href="https://youtu.be/elgYdZZtmW8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/elgYdZZtmW8</a>
You know its going to be fun when you break out the soldering iron. No belt replacing this time around.
There are two strings to my bow - (simple belt replacement and poor quality soldering) and both aren't anything to be proud of.
That "party mode" every minute or so seems extremely excessive... Seems like it would be more appropriate to run every hour as a kind of "chime"
Yes ... you went on holiday ... how was it?
It was fine. (You can see why I’m not a travel writer).
Great video! Glad to have you back Mat.
After I've seen your Useless Box video i got myself one too. I think I'm gonna get this one too.
The end result is very good...although I definitely wouldn’t want to assemble these for a living. One was plenty.
I find it annoying that there is no obvious separation between the hours, minutes, and seconds. It just looks like a big six-digit number. But other than that, it's pretty cool. I've never seen anything like it.
I suspect you’d be more than capable of putting something more custom together with the LIXIEs and an Arduino. This is about as DIY as I get...if I have to program something, you can forget it.
Another great video! Thank you for the wonderful production
Brilliant - I want one! Great video, Mat, welcome home!
Thanks - good to be back. I'm just starting to get back into the swing of things.
What really surprised me Mat, you explained that there was a feature to enter a time offset - but why? If the kit included it’s own MSF (or equivalent) module this would make sense - and indeed if it did, I’d want to buy one. Unless that’s being readied for the Mk II Version?
I think the time-offsetting thing is more of a clock-drift-compensation setting, as it appears (based on Mat's description) to add or subtract some seconds. So if you found the clock was gaining 5 seconds a day, you could tell it to subtract 5s to keep it "true". Seems like a manual calibration to work around a cheap RTC.