Monthly Archives: November 2019

An Enclosure for the Dalibor Farny R|Z568M Nixie Tube

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Glen

In the first post in this series, we designed a socket and driver board for a Dalibor Farny R|Z568M Nixie tube. In the the second post in this series, we designed a power supply and controller board for the Nixie … Continue reading →

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A Controller for a Dalibor Farny R|Z568M Nixie Tube

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Glen

The first in this series of posts described building a socket and driver board for a Dalibor Farny R|Z568M Nixie tube and driving the tube using a power supply and Particle Photon from another Nixie project. This post covers building … Continue reading →

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A Socket for a Dalibor Farny R|Z568M Nixie Tube

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Glen

I recently ordered one of Dalibor Farny’s R|Z568M Nixie tubes. I wanted to get the tube powered up and displaying digits so I designed a small circuit board to act as a socket and switch the anode and digit cathodes … Continue reading →

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Reverse Engineering the iColor Flex Protocol

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Glen

Back in the early 2000’s–at least a decade before there were Neopixels or WS2812b LEDs–Color Kinetics introduced flexible color changing LED string lights. Each string contained fifty RGB color changing nodes. Each node contained an RGB LED and a custom … Continue reading →

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