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Ian built a very excellent LED hard drive clock from this design using a PIC microcontroller. It really is a very cool display - nice. - LED Hard Drive Clock 3.5" [via Hackosis]
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Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Aug 1, 2008 05:00 PM
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I wonder what other kinds of animations you could show besides the ones in the video. Ideas?
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Shadyman> something like real time pie charts from data taken by ntop ?
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Wow that is amazing.
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Reminds me a bit of a Nipkow Disc, but one-dimensional. A two-dimensional thing might be fun to try (I definitely couldn't do it...).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk
This is very cool and neat looking, by the way. The thing that blinks the lights adjusts the blinking rate according to the measured speed of the disk then? I couldn't understand how the image remained stable when you slowed the disk down, but I'm guessing this is it--it doesn't take the 5400 rpm for granted? Very, very cool.
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Have you had any problems with the disk not being balanced by the slot cut in to it? very cool idea, I wonder how far this could be pushed.
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