EL Wire “Nixie” tubes
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Oct 152011
Catarina helped me build a prototype of a “Nixie” tube illuminated with electroluminescent wire. Unfortunately the wires are too dense and too dim to work well with the ten layers of thickness, so the prototype is a beautiful failure. The number frames are based on Futura and cut on our Epilog laser using my opensource epilog driver. Side view and SVGs follow.
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[…] all projects lead to success, but sometimes even in their failure there’s some beauty. This attempt at emulating a nixie tube using EL wire was a valiant attempt. Unfortunately, the wire just wasn’t bright enough to pull it off in […]