A spherical persistence of vision display featuring a 1920 by 256 full colour resolution
I finally have all the pieces of the puzzle; the shaft is anodised, the laser cut steel plates are in and painted and the pulleys have finally turned up. My aim is to have the Globe prototype completed by the end of this week and the Kickstarter live early to mid next week so I have a …
So depending on how the Kickstarter campaign is going/has gone this blog may be more or less redundant, but I am writing it on the assumption that the campaign has reached its target and the project is going ahead (after all one needs a solid project plan before asking people to provide funding). As an electronic …
As of writing this the prototype is nearing completion and I am gearing up for Kickstarter. It's been a difficult project to plan, partially due to Globe being a fairly complex project (as far as Kickstarters go) and also because there's still a fair bit of development to be done. As with most things, it …
The mechanical housing has been kept as rugged and straight forward as possible; a simple frame 425mm wide, 400mm high made out of inch square mild steel to be nice and sturdy and leave plenty of room for fitting things in. The top, front and side panels are laser cut out of 6mm oak veneered …
The sliprings I bought for this project have 4 power lines (10A each) and 14 data lines. HDMI cables consist of 4 shielded differential pair signal traces (3 data, 1 clock), I2C (clk and data), 5V, GND, CEC, hotplug detect and in some cases ethernet, along with a bunch of shielding. Of these I am …
Globe 