Hi guys, Found this on the web, would look sweet in a plexi mod! Brilliantly done if i may say so. also checkout the vid.
After strolling around some more, it seems that Bob Blick is the godfather of this thing, he designed it 7 years ago! There's tons of links to many variants of that clock, however the plexi mirror version is by far the sweetest.
hehe this is just a thing to do for Zap me thinks. Make it a horizontal version with the led bar sticking up, since it is PIC controlled one could interface it in realtime with a PC and let it display any information you want. Or am i talking crap now
No, it can be done. I suggested this in my ideas thread, using a 120mm fan, but that requires polar calculations to figure out when to light the LEDs. BTW...Respect to Bob Blick
Just thought i'd post this for anyone who is interested. A good artical about a spinning sign that displays serial data. here. From the Seattle Robotics Society's newsletter, The Encoder.