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Little Ice-Cable said:
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Just went to the grocery store, and saw this gem. I have seen it a few times, but never able to grab a good picture. Looks like he has wrecked it recently as well.
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It's great to see a few still on the road but wow, they're all in such poor shape. Spotting one in the wild is becoming more and more rare.
 
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Adjuster tab broke off the reflector bowl in the Fusion's LH headlight and I don't want to buy a new assembly. Both beams were shining straight down at the pavement.

So I'm plastiwelding it back together with superglue and a Bic because I can't find my soldering iron or butane torch. Indoors.
 
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I have a handful of small IN-8 nixie tubes that I was going to use for a different project which didn't pan out, so I bought the mini IN-8 version of the big IN-18 clock (below) which I bought from them in 2023.

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Anyone here pick up on the reference?
 
No, but nice! I have some of those I've been wanting to turn into a clock. I love vacuum tubes. I wanted to order some 6" vfd displays, but the war made it hard to buy from russia, lol.
It's easy to do a perfect clock,using a gps module as the source for the time.
 
I've been building an led fake yule log for christmas out of flickering/std leds. getting it to look right is hard, part of a real fire flickers; red,blue,yellow, and some is constant. so I've got series/parallel strings of leds, controlled by flickering ones. And some logic gates to sequence the growth to burnup process. A counter chip, a 154 decoder, and a box of surplus leds,all on an 11x17 perfboard. All from amazon.
Last night I got a flickering led to clock the counter, so now it's all just getting the leds right.

:) Yes, I'm a geek,lol.

Merry Christmas!
 
Grog6 said:
I've been building an led fake yule log for christmas out of flickering/std leds. getting it to look right is hard, part of a real fire flickers; red,blue,yellow, and some is constant. so I've got series/parallel strings of leds, controlled by flickering ones. And some logic gates to sequence the growth to burnup process. A counter chip, a 154 decoder, and a box of surplus leds,all on an 11x17 perfboard. All from amazon.
Last night I got a flickering led to clock the counter, so now it's all just getting the leds right.

:) Yes, I'm a geek,lol.

Merry Christmas!
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We need a video when that's done. I really wish I had time for projects like that.
you can't spell geek with out the EE.
 
Grog6 said:
I've been building an led fake yule log for christmas out of flickering/std leds. getting it to look right is hard, part of a real fire flickers; red,blue,yellow, and some is constant. so I've got series/parallel strings of leds, controlled by flickering ones. And some logic gates to sequence the growth to burnup process. A counter chip, a 154 decoder, and a box of surplus leds,all on an 11x17 perfboard. All from amazon.
Last night I got a flickering led to clock the counter, so now it's all just getting the leds right.

:) Yes, I'm a geek,lol.

Merry Christmas!
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You really gotta show pics or a short video of this when its done.
 
Did some late night, winter time coaster riding with my son on Thursday night at the Carowinds Winter Fest.

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