IN-12 Nixie Tube System Monitor
My 10 IN-12 Nixie tubes being used as a system monitor for my computer. Every two tubes from left to right: CPU - Total processor usage CPU1 - Processor core 1 usage CPU2 - Processor core 2 usage MEM - Memory usage SWAP - Swap usage My client program is collecting the system information from the '/proc' directory (on Linux), formatting it and sending it to the nixie tube server to be displayed. I've split the tube controlling into a client and a server, connected through TCP. I'll eventually get a box for the tubes, a small cheap single-board computer (possibly the Raspberry Pi) connected to the tubes with the tube server on it and a network connection. This would then allow me to put the nixie tubes anywhere I want and still control them from any computer or mobile device with the client on it.
My 10 IN-12 Nixie tubes being used as a system monitor for my computer. Every two tubes from left to right: CPU - Total processor usage CPU1 - Processor core 1 usage CPU2 - Processor core 2 usage MEM - Memory usage SWAP - Swap usage My client program is collecting the system information from the '/proc' directory (on Linux), formatting it and sending it to the nixie tube server to be displayed. I've split the tube controlling into a client and a server, connected through TCP. I'll eventually get a box for the tubes, a small cheap single-board computer (possibly the Raspberry Pi) connected to the tubes with the tube server on it and a network connection. This would then allow me to put the nixie tubes anywhere I want and still control them from any computer or mobile device with the client on it.