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Turn your tv into a shadow camera

A project log for today's assorted project ramble "grab-bag"

Assorted project-ideas/brainstorms/achievements, etc. Likely to contain thoughts that'd be better-organized into other project-pages

eric-hertzEric Hertz 02/28/2020 at 02:040 Comments

sorta thing coulda been in MIMMs' books, Boy's Life, Popular Electronics, etc... Hard to goog, though.

Heh, wire up Hue and Sat, and a tiny bit more circuitry on Value/Intensity, and yah got a shadow-puppet blue/green-screen from the DVD!

Ah, CRT only... duh. *maybe* STN LCDs.

Also, record in realtime with yer vcr ;)

Inspired by:

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/27/recording-video-in-the-era-of-crts-the-video-camera-tube

Apparently, there is a scanner made from picture tubes [rather'n camera tubes] "Flying Spot Scanner" [see wikipedia].

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