Design & Build

Dave transformed his boring Youtube Silver Play Button Award into a cool retro nixie tube live subscription counter! The final video in a 7 part series on this construction project Playlist And some amazing Youtube statistics. Forum HERE

Soldering the Nixie Tube display PCB. How to do drag and dab soldering to make surface mount parts soldering easy. Also a look at the Elecrow blank prototype PCB quality. Jump to 3:36 for the soldering tutorial Part 6 of the Nixie Tube project Forum HERE

Dave shows how to do power supply MOSFET rail switching and demonstrates and discusses why supply sequencing might be needed. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

A walk though of taking the Nixie Tube project PCB from desing to manufacture. DRC checking, gerber generation, NC drill file, generation, and finding a PCB manufacturer. Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Part 4 of the Nixie tube display project. In this tutorial Dave walks you through a complete PCB design from begin to end, with a ton of hints and tips throughout that can be applied to any PCB layout package. Forum HERE How to lay out a PCB VIDEO Podcast: …