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James Brown

Have you ever wondered how many strands are in one of these tat shop fibre optic wands?

A picture of a tat shop fibre optic wand
30 June at 6:06 | Open on mastodon.social
James Brown

I wired the brick up as a very small external monitor, so you can, for instance, play Doom on it.

19 Jun 2022 at 22:37 | Open on mastodon.social
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fraggle

@ancientjames This is really cool. What source port tho?

22 Jun 2022 at 20:35 | Open on octodon.social
Andy Wood

@ancientjames woah - looking forward to seeing the inevitable Lego brick monitor video wall... 😆

23 Jun 2022 at 13:11 | Open on vis.social
stirz ✅

@ancientjames

Great stuff. Will you set up a Kickstarter?

26 Jun 2022 at 18:20 | Open on mastodon.online
James Brown
James Brown

The VK-Pocket. When you look at it, it looks back at you with your own eyes.

The eye on the screen is a live view. The black dot to the left is a wide angle high resolution camera; it performs face detection and crops the eye region for display, wherever it is in the frame.

2 May 2022 at 3:41 | Open on mastodon.social
James Brown

It uses a miniature CRT scavenged from a tip shop camcorder, and a Raspberry Pi Zero to run it all. There's a little servo to move the bellows.

A view of the VK-Pocket with the top removed, showing the layout inside - a Pi Zero, a small servo, the CRT, and the CRT drive board. It all fits in the palm of a hand.
2 May 2022 at 3:44 | Open on mastodon.social
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