Very impresive.  Now to implement that on the prop of an airplane and
display gauge information would be really cool

Joris van den Heuvel wrote:

> Hey y'all, Remember Bob Blick's Propeller clock (www.bobblick.com)? I
> am very excited about having built a mechanically scanned display,
> taking Bob's Propeller as an inspiration. I multiplied about every
> aspect of the Propeller by four, and came up with the following: -
> radially scanned display- diameter is 1 meter across- rotation speed
> is currently 300-400 rpm- Led bar contains 35 rectangular dual LEDs,
> 32 green, 3 yellow- microcontroller is a PIC16F876-20- synchronization
> is done by a 480-pulse shaft encoder- Power to the PCB is supplied
> through the ball bearings- The rotor is driven by a DC motor at 3
> volts, 3 amps- The software is contained in 7 files, making the total
> listing over 1500 lines. The clock diplays the following: - an analog
> clock: seconds, minutes, hours, and hour markers- a digital clock:
> time, weekday, date, year- a 64x32 pixel logo- the logo changes over
> to a 96 bit wide scrolling message every 4 minutes I'll be putting up
> a web page. TTYL, Joris van den
> Heuvel.     _______________________________________________________________
>
> "Bass is the basis of all that is music"

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