I am waiting on a board spin for my current VFD wall clock/rss feed (I screwed up the HV grounding) but this project is on such a different level. The project itself is cool enough that the nixie portion is just a side note, whereas every other nixie project is explicitly about using them for display. This would be cool on a 7-segment.
I thought I was being fancy by syncing to time.gov and using NIST's atomic clock, but having an independent atomic clock is awesome. Granted, it's likely not as accurate, but for a wall clock the difference won't show up for centuries. Just the best parts of hobby electronics, a nerd project that is extremely technically impressive for a result that non-hobbyiest people shrug their shoulders at.
I thought I was being fancy by syncing to time.gov and using NIST's atomic clock, but having an independent atomic clock is awesome. Granted, it's likely not as accurate, but for a wall clock the difference won't show up for centuries. Just the best parts of hobby electronics, a nerd project that is extremely technically impressive for a result that non-hobbyiest people shrug their shoulders at.