Charles Lohr

Powering Nixies off USB with a 10¢ Micro (Patreon)

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2023-04-29 18:32:58

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2026-06

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flyback nixie retro risc-v

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I saw some nixie tubes on Aliexpress, and I wanted to see what I could do to make them light up, using a confluence of some of my recent mini projects.

In the end, I was able to make my CH32V003, a 10 cent RISC-V microcontroller and make it operate as an flyback converter.

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Powering Nixies off USB with a 10¢ Micro

Running a Nixie Tube off USB with a software-defined flyback power supply running on the CH32V003 RISC-V microcontroller. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cnlohr ch32v003: https://github.com/cnlohr/ch32v003fun cnixxi: https://github.com/cnlohr/cnixxi