Looking for that vintage style? Try Nixie tube displays

MIKROE’s Nixie Power Click add-on board and Nixie shield add retro charm for visually striking and nostalgic projects

February 2025: 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.

About MIKROE

MIKROE is committed to changing the embedded electronics industry through the use of time-saving industry-standard hardware and software solutions. With unique concepts like Remote Programming/Debugging, One New Product/Day, Multi-Architectural IDE and most recently, the Embedded Wiki™ platform with more then million ready-for-use projects, MIKROE combines its dev boards, compilers, smart displays, programmers/debuggers  and 1600+ Click peripheral boards to dramatically cut development time. mikroBUS™; mikroSDK™; SiBrain™ and DISCON™ are open standards and mikroBUS has been adopted by over 100 leading microcontroller companies and integrated on their development boards.

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