The final piece is shown above. This project is a greyscale 2-bit mechanical display with a resolution of 16×16. It uses two stm32s, one pi 4, thirty-two servos, and a lot of plastic to accomplish something mesmerizing. I came up with the idea for this project on a cross-country drive last summer. It uses a…

Everything Works! Just kidding, it is a robot. Robots never work! Where I left you last week. This Week. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ye5LsFlnl6U The code works on the display. Yay! I have run into a couple of issues though. Although I increased clearance between the pixels, they still catch on one another. I hope I can solve this…

This is an overview of all the bumps in the road. Patrice Dying 3 Times – Voron 2.4 Most of the project was printed on my Voron 2.4, a DIY Open Source 3D printer. (I call them Patrice) Patrice had some issues with cooling the cold side of the extruder. Image holding a hot glue…

I threw together some super rough python code with a single child controller and started testing the mechanism driven by the hobby servos I planned on using in the end. This prototype uses the sheath implementation. (Far right listed below) Which replaces the first disc prototype. The key difference is that the cube no longer…

A display that emits no light. I want to make a display that does not use light. Concept 1 – BB Pellet Array https://www.zekebuilds.com/bb-tube This Display uses different colored BB pellets arranged in a matrix to create images. Essentially the BB pellets become pixels. Concept 2 – Rolling Blocks Let’s say you were going to…