As [sjm4306] says, “You can never have too many clocks based on obsolete display technologies.” We couldn’t agree more, and this single-tube VFD clock is one we haven’t seen before. The ...

Sometimes the stars align and we get two somewhat similar builds hitting the Hackaday tip line at the same time. Recently, the build of note was clocks using some sort of display tube, so here we go.

That’s VFD as in Vacuum Fluorescent Display. What does the VFD have better than your average clock face? Not much, except it looks like the clock itself was made from the body parts of a dead cyborg.

Frank a developer and engineer based in Berlin, Germany has created a unique timepiece, designed using nixie tubes or to be more specific, vacuum fluorescent tube displays based on Project OpenVFD.