It's literally made from stuff I had sitting on or around my desk.
Well, except for the wood..had that in a scrap pile in the garage
I used a piece of styrene that I had left over from another projekt. Made the disk using a printout from my compy. Used the DXF Nipkow generator program for that...
Light is provided by a single ultra-bright white LED, which is driven by a LM-386 amp (there's a 2nd LM-386 for sound too).
The brightness and contrast aren't the best by any means, but hey, it works!
The diffuser is made up of a cereal box, and some plastic grocery bag material...which works quite nicely actually.
The motor I used is an xbox 360 controller rumble motor. Speed control (what little there is) is done through a pot and a pushbutton...
The pot is 10 ohm, and the pushbutton has 2 positions. The open position goes straight from the pot to the motor. When pressed, it adds 10 ohms of resistance from the pot to the motor.
For what it is, it's pretty effective. Once you get the hang of it, you hardly notice your button tapping
Ugh...the picture of it running is awful, but it's the best I could do with one hand on the sync thingy and the other holding the camera best I can...should probably invest in a small tripod or something...
It may not be the greatest televisor creation by any means, but it's a nice thing to play with. Perhaps I'll build a better looking one in the future that uses a precision made disk instead of my hand cut piece of plastic....
