Collaborate Disseminate
Just when you think the POV thing has run out of gas, along comes [mitxela] to liven things up. In this, he’s taken the whole persistence of vision display concept …read more Continue reading Tiny POV Turns Right Round for Volumetric Fun
A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an oscilloscope look like? We’re not sure ourselves, but it seems like something similar to …read more Continue reading Spinning CRT Makes a 360 Degree Audio Oscilloscope
It may not exactly be what [Princess Leia] used to beg [Obi-Wan] for help, but this Star Wars-inspired volumetric display is still a pretty cool hack, and with plenty of …read more Continue reading A Volumetric Display with a Star Wars Look and Feel
Speaking from experience, it’s always fun to build something with the specific intention of destroying it. Childhood sessions spending hours building boats from scrap wood only to take them to …read more Continue reading Cheap Camera Gives Clay-Pigeon’s-Eye View of Trap Shooting
[Sean Hodgins] really harnessed the holiday spirit to create his very own Giant Spinning Holographic Christmas Tree (of Death). It’s a three-dimensional persistence-of-vision (POV) masterpiece, but as a collection of …read more Continue reading Spinning Holographic POV Christmas Tree of Death
Chinese Youtuber [corebb] presents the second version of his POV display. The earlier version used 5050-sized SMT addressable LEDs, which didn’t give great resolution, so he rev’d the design to use …read more Continue reading Tidy POV Display Using The ESP32
You don’t need much to do a persistence of vision display. A few LEDs and a processor is all it really takes. [B45i] made a simple PC board with five …read more Continue reading $1 POV Display Goes Round and Round
Although film and animation have come quite a long way, there’s still something magical about that grandaddy of them all, the zoetrope. Thanks to persistence of vision, our eyes are …read more Continue reading 3D Zoetrope Uses Illusion to Double the Frames
It seems like the world is ready for a true 3D display. We’ve seen them in sci-fi for decades now, with the ability to view a scene from any angle …read more Continue reading Wiggling Screen and DLP Power This Volumetric POV 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