And you get a clock at the end of it! [hamblin.joe] wanted to do a simple project for kids along these lines, so whipped up a neat design using analog meters to display the time.

Full instructions on how to create your very own Arduino music player and alarm clock have been kindly published by Dejan Nedelkovski with all the code you require.

Making a clock with a common microcontroller like an Arduino isn’t very difficult. However, if you’ve tried it, you probably discovered that keeping track of wall time is difficult with… ...

Robin the developer of the nixie clock Arduino shield explains more about the nixie tube technology “IN-9 Nixie bargraph tubes are a 1960s display technology.