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Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39]

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The micromirror arrays are the wildest of the bunch to me. That is just such a prima facie batshit insane idea and it’s astonishing that it actually works.

“Yeah, we need to be able to individually display and shut off these pixels, so we’re going to go ahead and design a chip with 6,220,800 tiny mirrors that physically tilt when you poke them with electricity. Rather than, I don’t know, literally any other solution that presents itself.”

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Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It sounds insane, but the array that drives it is functionally not that different from the array that individually causes LCD crystals to shift.

I have DLP parts sitting around because they’re cool.

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- spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Woah that color wheel… You can see the cyan, magenta, yellow light reflecting but red, green, blue light passing through to the table, respectively. Such a great example of complementary primaries
  
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  - Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m so happy you noticed, the colors cannot be reproduced in a digital photo, when it shines in the sun it’s so beautiful!
    
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- probable_possum@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What’s the 4th color on the wheel used for? White minus white… black, yes. But why?
  
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  - Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Straight answer, I don’t know lol
    
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    There is no way that the pictures I’ve snapped can produce the colors accurately. When I look at that small section, it reflects forest green light back to my eye. The light that passes through seems to be muddy yellowish
    
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There was a micromirror e-paper too. Though i don’t think they got a reader on market. Got bought up by E Ink corp, like everythiing else e-paper.

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There was an idea I read about (might have been Popular Science or something like 25 years ago) where they came up with an idea for a jet that didn't use traditional control surfaces like ailerons, but rather line the wings and fuselage in thousands of tiny flaps that would all be precisely computer controlled. It would be able to basically mold and shape the airstream around itself to make precise movements.

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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You are totally remembering correctly! I recall this as well, but the hype died out quickly.
  
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
still used for a type of advanced microscopy.

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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I could also see DLP being applied in new QM research… lasers are being increasingly used to trap and manipulate atomic nuclei
  
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