3D Print A Colour TV
The oldest form of television used a spinning disk with a progression of holes — a Nipkow disk — to slice the image into lines for display. They’re surprisingly simple …read more Continue reading 3D Print A Colour TV
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Retrotechtacular: Mechanical TV From The People Who Made It Happen
If we have a television in 2021 the chances are that it will be a large LCD model, flat and widescreen, able to display HD images in stunning clarity. Before …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Mechanical TV From The People Who Made It Happen
Big Spinning Disk Makes a Small Color Video Display
The earliest televisions used a spinning disk technology called the Nipkow disk, which is exactly what [Science ‘n’ Stuff] recreated with their Arduino-based mechanical color television (video link, also embedded …read more Continue reading Big Spinning Disk Makes a Small Color Video Display
Mechanical Image Acquisition With A Nipkow Disc
If you mis-spent your teenage years fishing broken televisions from dumpsters and either robbing them for parts or fixing them for the ability to watch The A Team upstairs rather than in the living room as I did, then it’s possible that you too will have developed a keen interest in analogue television technology. You’ll know your front porch from your blanking interval and your colour burst, you might say.
There was one piece of television technology that evaded a 1980s dumpster-diver, no 625-line PAL set from the 1970s was ever going to come close to the fascination of the …read more
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