The Fawlty Meter

Yes, it would. But I've made bunches of these with discrete components, too. With just 4-5 LEDs it isn't bad at all. Good work.

Actually fancy way maked circuits are quite demanding as example i give most popular nixie clocks. Theoretically who will deal this day with old gas tubes whose need at least 100 volts to operate and cause problems when u want to couple this to digital logic due to lethal voltages for delicate IC's. But those clocks are priced high and tubes in good shape also do not belongs to cheap parts. Even this demand for those clocks are high andif u want to sold one just hit ebay and if price is attractive a few hours later clock ill be sold. Many other circuits done in particular way start to gain interest and not because those are practical but from visual advantages or as somewhat modern art type of electric sculpture design start belongs to things that you buy because it's stylize your home place creating ur personality image in composition of various items or fancy painted walls around house . Audiophiles start gaining interest in old type but fully functional mercury arc rectifier assemblies and not because those make their amp play better. But rather fom breath stoping visual effect those rectifiers produce giving most mystic and even paranormal looking light type whose looks like some form of etheral life. And as they are mostly tube lovers any of them want to have such because it compose extraordinary well with rest of tube equipment. Other types of seeking things are High Voltage toys like small teslas plasma globes from bulbs and fancy electrostwtic engines, in electronic involved ppl a gaining interest increase around point contact tranistors such as 2n31 or 2n30 mostly because those are only true current amplifiers ever created so far not as todays bjt whose is current amp only from name . It damp current instead of amplify it. Alpha current gain is always less than 1. And due to this point contact transistors behave completely different and poses unique features not available to bjt in any way. And when we add to this that those transistors were available only betwen 1948-1952 and as first series with low prroductin ratio whose vanish completely when in 52 a junction bjt hit market this is a demanded product whose some small manufctures start to produce in small quantities for conessers.