Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
> There's a new advertising product out now that spins a vertical line of LEDs
> on a vertical axis.  It has a PIC on the rotating board that does all the
> LED timing to create the pixels, and it also does the font generation.  You
> can send messages for it to display via a serial port.


Hi Olin, I once saw a design for a 3D display,
they had a vertical clear plastic panel, rotated
vertically, then projected a scanned laser onto
it from the side. It could generate a complete
3D shape, viewable from all directions. The thing
I liked was that it could generate a shape with the
dimensions quite correct, which looked very handy
for CAD model display.

Haven't seen much about it since. Maybe this could
be done in a lower-res form by using a spinning
panel of leds?? That would look very clever.
-Roman

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