MIKROE’s Nixie Power Click add-on board and Nixie shield add retro charm for visually striking and nostalgic projects
MIKROE, the embedded solutions company that dramatically cuts development time by providing innovative hardware and software products based on proven standards, has launched Nixie Power Click, a booster Click board™ designed to provide high voltage for powering Nixie Tube (cold cathode display) shields. This board features the LM2577 step-up voltage regulator enabling a two-stage boost conversion from 5V to 150V. It also integrates Microchip’s 16-bit I/O expander MCP23017 for precise control via the I2C interface and ADDR SEL jumpers for easy I2C address configuration.
Comments Nebojsa Matic, CEO of MIKROE: “If you want to add the retro charm of Nixie tubes to modern projects such as clocks, displays, and instrumentation, these Nixie Power Clicks are ideal for creating visually striking and nostalgic projects.”
Nixie Power Clicks are compatible with MIKROE’s Nixie IN-12B add-on shield boards that feature pre-installed IN-12B Nixie tubes that offer a character height of 18mm and the ability to display digits 0 to 9 with a left-positioned decimal point. Operation has a typical starting voltage of 150V with 3mA current per segment, which is delivered by the Nixie Power Clicks.
A new member of the MIKROE’s 1750-strong mikroBUS™ -enabled Click board family of compact add-on boards Nixie Power Click can be used on any host system supporting the mikroBUS™ standard. It comes with the mikroSDK open-source libraries, offering great flexibility for evaluation and customization. Nixie Power Clicks, like all recently released Clicks, features ClickID which enables a host system to seamlessly and automatically detect and identify this particular board.