Click add-on board and shield add retro charm for visually striking and nostalgic projects

MIKROE 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 supplying 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."

These Click boards are compatible with the company'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 the Nixie Power Clicks deliver.

A new member of the company'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, delivering great flexibility for evaluation and customisation. Like all recently released Clicks, it features ClickID, enabling a host system to detect and identify this particular board seamlessly and automatically.