On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
Love those. Never found a way to make them affordably and never ran
across a panel to re-use.
Edge illuminated numeric displays (link shows a modern
version... the old ones used grain of wheat lamps):
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/02/18/edge-lit-led-nixie-tube-display/
Those are really fun. I did some experiments with acrylic and a mill
a while back, but now, I'd probably try it with a small table-top CNC.
-ethan