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Hollow State Electronics: Desk Decorations

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I did a lightning talk / show-n-tell last Tuesday at the MHV LUG meeting and covered one end of a table with the Neopixel-lit bulbs & vacuum tubes & hard drive platters I’ve been playing with:

MHVLUG – Hollow State Decorations – Lightning Talk

Some of the posts won’t go live for a week, but here’s a peek into the future:

Vacuum Tube LEDs - IBM 21HB5A Beam Power Tube - violet amber phase
Vacuum Tube LEDs – IBM 21HB5A Beam Power Tube – violet amber phase

Dang, that came out well…

Comments

6 responses to “Hollow State Electronics: Desk Decorations”

  1. Joel Avatar
    Joel

    You’re quite the arteest.

    1. Ed Avatar
      Ed

      It happened when I was thinking “Art!“, so that’s what it is.

      Bear in mind: my works are much cheaper less expensive now than they will be in, oh, say four decades. [grin]

  2. David Pilling Avatar
    David Pilling

    I saw a You Tube where someone connected a high voltage from a car spark coil to an old bulb and turned it into a plasma sphere. Then I found on ebay “1 X DC3v-6V OUT 700 kv 700KV” and I wondered…

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-X-DC3v-6V-OUT-700-kv-700KV-high-voltage-generator-of-high-voltage-inverter-EI-/172088249532?hash=item2811424cbc:g:pXQAAOSw5dNWsxYq

    1. Ed Avatar
      Ed

      Sounds like a great project. While you’re working that out, keep the horizon betwixt thee & me…

    2. madbodger Avatar
      madbodger

      I did this sort of thing a lot when I was a kid. I’d run an old ignition coil from a train transformer to get arcs in burned-out bulbs.

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