Published March 18, 2018 © GPL3+

Nipkow Disk Based Digital Display Device

In 1884 Nipkow invented a method to capture and view a moving image. This project uses the same disk to generate a moving digital image.

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Things used in this project

I always wanted to do something with a Nipkow disk.

Although it has big drawbacks as a display device, the idea of a small hole scanning and reproducing an image is very simple and works.

This is a YouTube video to show the result and give some more information about how it works.