MSM-5A Mosaic Readout Indicator Incandescent Display taken apart and photographed

I just ordered a pair of Alco MSM-5A incandescent indicators from seller hp2114b on eBay.  In retrospect, I should have purchased all 5 so I could make a clock out of them.  The remaining 3 units sold out within half of a day after I made my purchase.  At $10/each, these things were very reasonably [...]

Find of the day: a fully self contained bar code scanner and interpreter for $10 at Ax Man Surplus.  That’s right, now I can find a way to add things to my Delicious Library library the really hard way.  All you have to do is take this device and connect it to a serial to [...]

E Ink Digital Hour Clock Watch with Black Leather Band by Phosphor Watches $185.00 USD http://www.phosphorwatches.com/ My primary interest is still, and always will be, collecting Nixie Clocks.    However, I just found what is probably the first practical and mass produced e-ink watch.  I’ve you’ve never seen an e-ink display, they are quite a bit [...]

This is just a quick video I made for TubeClockDB.com.  Be sure to share the YouTube video link. Featured: Jeff Thomas / Nixichron Nixie Clock Jon Ellis / Nimimini Numitron Clock Konstantin Bodrenkov / IV-11 clock VFD Clock

Who doesn’t want a 630 lumen LED flashlight?  Okay, who doesn’t one that only costs $150?  This thing is brighter than your average car headlights but only slightly larger than your average $5 Wal Mart incandescentpos.  I probably just lost most of my readers by this point. If you’re still here, however, you’re probably interested [...]

Home made laser scanner based off of a Red, Green, Blue and Violet laser module. Roughly 1/2 watt combined output

6 digits IV-11 VFD Clock with 2 Alarms. by Kosbo.com $Price Unknown / request only I just found this clock while doing a Google Image search for something completely unrelated.  It appears to be by eBay seller Sparkeltube.  It is a 6 discrete digit VFD based clock.  It has two alarm and a built in [...]

Magic Eye Winker EAM86 6GX8 via eBay/ $98 / sold by Tortugascuba I found one more magic eye winker in addition to the one yesterday.  This one is a little more expensive but it comes as a complete kit.  I really like this little version.  There are no integrated circuits and it looks well built.  I [...]

ThinkGeek (OEM Unknown) $50 ThinkGeek just recently released a clock that is a little unusual.  Instead of focusing on weird LED displays or retro nixie tubes, they built a clock on a long-dead technology: flip clocks.  I could try and explain them but I think Wikipedia does a better job.  Read the description and see [...]