{"id":6593,"date":"2014-10-27T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/dear-santa-i-want-a-knack-watch-the-one-with-real-tubes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:18:01","slug":"dear-santa-i-want-a-knack-watch-the-one-with-real-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/dear-santa-i-want-a-knack-watch-the-one-with-real-tubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Santa: I want a Knack Watch. The one with real tubes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is what all the cool homebrewers will be wearing next year. Just be careful at airport security — they might not understand! <\/b>

<\/b> Check it out: http:\/\/www.johngineer.com\/blog\/?p=1595<\/a><\/b>

<\/b> We received some comments from some noted Thermatron authorities: <\/b>

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Hi Guys,<\/b><\/div>\n
This will cause all of the bells, whistles and sirens to go off all it once.<\/b><\/div>\n
Now all that is needed is a logo on the watch that says<\/b><\/div>\n
EBOLA ( Electronic Bi-state Operational Long Arithmetic) and this will cause you to go to jail without passing Go or collecting $200.<\/b><\/div>\n
Pete<\/b><\/div>\n


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<\/b> Wow, I love this thing!\u2026even though it uses little black plastic things to work. Have no idea what they are. (johngineer has knack squared)<\/b> <\/p>\n

Reminds me of a project I am trying with fellow ham. We picked up an old HP nixie tube freq counter at junk yard. We were going to strip out the nixie tubes to make a clock, but decided we could make it as clock as is. Want to program an Arduino thing into generating a frequency that is the time and feeding it into the counter.<\/b><\/div>\n
For example 3:45:25 would be 34,525 Hz. <\/b><\/div>\n
But my Italian is terrible so haven\u2019t been able to get the Arduino to work. Just learning it. Project a bit over my head. picked up one of those online language courses on Italian. Hard, but not as hard as Turkish!<\/b><\/div>\n
Grayson<\/b><\/div>\n
TA2ZGE – Ankara, Turkey<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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KJ7UM<\/div>\n
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<\/b> I’m wondering if I could do it Manhattan style, with discrete components… <\/b><\/p>\n

Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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