Thanks to Bob Scott KD4EBM for alerting me to this wonderful video. It seems especially timely, given the recent release of the Oppenheimer movie.
I posted back in 2000 about Dalibor Farny and the Nixie tubes he makes in a castle in the Czech Republic:
In this more recent video (above) Dalibor describes a very cool and very challenging Nixie tube project: A museum in Hiroshima Japan was presenting an art project designed by a Chilean artist. The display needed a lot of large, custom-made Nixie tubes, some of which would display Japanese language characters. So: Museum in Japan, Chilean artist, Nixe maker in the Czech Republic. There are big geographic challenges before you even get to the technical challenges.
Dalibor does a great job in describing all of the challenges that they faced. The technical stuff will be especially interesting to SolderSmoke listeners. His description of the evolution of his Czech workshop fits very well with our "other kinds of workshops" theme.
The video is really worth watching. Check it out (above). The ending is quite moving.
Thanks again to Bob Scott. Congratulations to Dalibor, his crew, and to all those involved in this Hiroshima museum project.
Wow. There is so much to like about this video. The moment when he says I spent more time looking for my tools then working so I decided to build a new workshop! Or the fact that the first, second or third times things didn't work out but they persisted and eventually found ways around each challenge. And then just the fact that they built a complete factory for this one project is astounding. So satisfying to see it all come together. It's difficult to imagine the stress of those last few days.
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