Nipkow Disk Based Digital Display Device

Arduino UNO

<p >I always wanted to do something with a Nipkow disk.</p><p >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.</p><p >This is a YouTube video to show the result and give some more information about how it works.</p><div class="se-component se-video-container __se__float-none" contenteditable="false" style="width: 100%;"><figure style="width: 100%; height: 56.25%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTvPC_hkeGs" data-proportion="true" data-percentage="100%,56.25%" data-size="100%,56.25%" data-align="none" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" data-index="0" data-file-size="0" data-origin="100%,56.25%"></iframe></figure></div><p ></p>

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.