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Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself

48 points - today at 2:10 PM

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  • iefbr14

    today at 5:01 PM

    Unfortunately the video link points to https://example.com/docs

      • portalcell

        today at 5:06 PM

        https://youtu.be/41b8fw3_wP8

        From git history on the readme.md

          • jolmg

            today at 7:31 PM

            Also, the second picture is a video link with the correct URL.

    • bensmoif

      today at 6:40 PM

      It's stunning. The video speaks for itself. Please scale this up, like way up back of a truckbed size. This would be delightful to see spinning and running IRL.

      Then get a grant and make one as wide as a city street

      • CrzyLngPwd

        today at 6:50 PM

        Okay, that is genuinely amazing.

        Love it, thank you for sharing and for being inspiring :-)

        • josh-wrale

          today at 5:46 PM

          I can see this being applied to hubcaps in the future.

          • pbronez

            today at 7:45 PM

            How do you get the flashing LED synced up to the spinning pinholes? Maybe the motor provides some positioning feedback so you just have to line it up once…

            • lagrange77

              today at 4:50 PM

              Absolutely fantastic!

              The video URL doesn't seem to be correct, through. ;)

                • mysterydip

                  today at 5:00 PM

                  > Avoid use in operations.

                  Oops

              • effnorwood

                today at 7:46 PM

                eat it hdmi

                • lstodd

                  today at 7:03 PM

                  about the same idea as nipkow disk

                  nowadays when people don't want to go the rotating led bar way, which requires very high density led strips (hundreds of ~200-400 mil smd leds) and the accordingly complex control circuitry (basically an FPGA per bar + high speed bus, etc), they do nipkow disk but with individual leds instead of holes. this way you can get away with tens of leds while still having a reasonable sized picture and not that much bandwidth to drive it.

                  edit: another, less sophisticated take is for example

                  https://hackaday.io/project/191947-rotating-led-display/deta...

                  • today at 5:06 PM