Why choose between Nixie and Edge-Lit, when you can have a LED Lixie?

Cory Doctorow 1:13 pm Wed Mar 15, 2017

Lixie is an open-source hardware, LED-based edge-lit display that combines the look of Nixie tubes with the techniques invented for their distant ancestors, the edge-lit display.

Lixies project low-power, microcontrolled LED light into a stack of engraved acrylic sheets. They're like a 5V alternative to 170V Nixies!

You can build your own or order them for $38 from their inventor, Connor Nishijima.

Lixie works by shining light through the edge of a clear acrylic. When the light hits an engraving or edge, it scatters in a different direction, and lands in your eye! This allows the flat surfaces of the acrylic to stay clear, and have only edges light up! Now put ten pieces in a stack, each marked with a different number 0-9, and you can show each number individually, on a clear surface!

LIXIE – an LED alternative to the Nixie Tube!
[Connor Nishijima/Tindie]

(Thanks, Blacksmith_TB!)

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