If you've poked around the internets where electronics hobbyists collect, it is likely that you are acutely aware of our incontrovertible affinity for building timekeeping clocks.  It is similarly unlikely that you have been able to evade the plenitude of nixie tube based projects.  There is a reason for this. Nixie tubes are cool.  They have great aesthetic appeal with their difficult-to-photograph, warm o ...