Here's a video of a mechanical colour television that I built using the Arduino Due:
And here's another one with some more details on the construction:
I have completed a video and documentation on an exhibit for mechanical television for the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, Washington.
This project uses the RaspBerry PI 3 for the controller, which converts .GIF files to the special signals used for mechanical television, with was around in the 1930's
I then designed the electronics to convert the converted file to the proper signals to run two mechanical television receivers.
Now, I have an updated video as well as a PDF document with details on the project including the software code; schematics; photographs; and flow diagrams.
I hope this all helps in case anyone wants to try this effort on their own.
The new video is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyxVlXjwSM
And the PDF document is at:
http://www.allyn.com/SPARK_Museum_Mechanical_Television.pdf
We hope to have the exhibit up and running at the museum sometime fall of 2017.
Mark Allyn Bellingham, Washington
I looked on Wikipedia, but it didn't make sense, and I'm quite curious.
Edit: we figured it out
This might seem silly, but is there a lock button of some sort on the device? Our switcher won't switch when pressed, it will only switch via the atem software. The on-screen display will switch, but our preview monitor and program output are unaffected.
Two years ago, you guys put my welder and /r/Skookum on the front page after it was lost by the US Postal Service. I had just started a new job, so this was particularly demoralizing.
A year later I had changed jobs again and acquired a 1956 Monarch 10ee after Tom Lipton (my supervisor at my current position) saw me browsing government surplus auctions for Monarch lathes. I had it for a year as life kept me from really kicking the restoration job into high-gear. Finally, just last January, I decided it was time to vacate my personal project shop of the last 15 years in a West Oakland DIY space after finding something horrible out about a friend.
I had a fire sale for all the machine tools I had been customizing and building except the lathe; it still needed paint and the tube-based speed control system was NOT fixed (I thought I fixed it in this video). About this time, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country full-force and I, like many people, began to go through intense anxiety and panic in the face of incredible uncertainty.
I resolved to confront my disillusionment directly.
I worked for long stretches of time as I moved everything out into storage at the same time I was disassembling and repairing components on the lathe. The mess was tremendous. After painting and fixing a cracked dog-drive in the gearbox. I realized that there remained an issue in the archaic speed control system that I couldn't identify. I was not equipped to pull out and bench test components for a high-voltage DC system, making this process very slow, discouraging, and dangerous. Finally at the end of April, after a long conversation with my mother, I decided that if I couldn't fix it by the end of the week, I'd just have to sell a broken Monarch 10ee to the first person equipped to move it, and hopefully before the next national tragedy exploded.
This entire time, I was shooting b-roll to capture the process. Through this exploration, and with the help of the patron saint of earnestness, Joe Pera, I realized I am a grown man who loves to make glamorous music videos about his silly mechanical bullshit and that I should embrace that about me, and now [I'm premiering the video tonight on my YouTube channel at 6:30 pm.](https://www.you
... keep reading on reddit ➡There's heaps of different tools for building or leveraging block, but no one wants to be getting stunned.
Maybe this pushes block/shields too far, but just do the rework alongside some nerfs there, so players who enjoy block get an extra tool or block "scaling" option to compensate for the baseline power reduction.
I've wondered this forever but felt too nervous to ask at this point.
Follow up question, if it is interpolation, why do people shoot 24 in the first place? It seems pointless to have a computer interpret those frames over actually having them, right?
Devs is centered around Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno), a computer engineer investigating a quantum computing company called Amaya, run by Forest (Nick Offerman). She believes this company is responsible for the disappearance of her boyfriend.
https://decider.com/2020/03/05/devs-fx-stream-it-or-skip-it/
Spoilers for all of Survivor 41
It’s been a while since I did one of these posts, hasn’t it?
26 Days
18 People
Fans have a very…complicated relationship with CBS and the production crew, in particular Jeff Probst since he became the sole executive producer sometime around 2010ish. Survivor, at the end of the day, is a reality television show based on flying a bunch of contestants out in Fiji to live on a deserted island for a month while backstabbing all their allies for a million dollars. And while it can be great to watch, production always has an investment in ensuring episodes are as crazy and dramatic as possible. Sometimes that comes about organically. Sometimes it is ugly. And sometimes…it’s a little more forced.
Again, reality TV is by nature “fake”. Any seasoned fan knows the show isn’t fair and definitely is influenced by the producers. But problems arise when input from behind the scenes bleeds into the enjoyment of the season. I’ve written about numerous controversial twists, a ton of polarizing moments, and poorly received themes that have all fallen flat. Many of those have come from the past few seasons alone, and it can be argued that Survivor has been going through a bit of an identity crisis recently. The more hardcore audience, at least, aren’t very impressed by the surge of advantages and twists that have entered the game, feeling it cheapens the drama and ensure the crew’s favorite players will have a much easier journey to the end. So when Probst announced Survivor was going “back to basics” after a year-long hiatus due to Covid-19, many were relieved.
>What Probst describes is a stripped-down game — one that he says goes "back to the very basic idea of a group of strangers, forced to rely on each other to survive while voting each other out." The game is the one the contestants create, without the top-down divisions by social class, generation, gamep
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
