{"id":2449,"date":"2022-05-30T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/a-modern-mechanical-television-nipkow-discs-and-arduinos-lead-to-a-mechanical-color-tv-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:29","slug":"a-modern-mechanical-television-nipkow-discs-and-arduinos-lead-to-a-mechanical-color-tv-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/a-modern-mechanical-television-nipkow-discs-and-arduinos-lead-to-a-mechanical-color-tv-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Mechanical Television &#8212; Nipkow Discs and Arduinos Lead to a Mechanical Color TV (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LmISP_fAAws?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I had, of course, heard about the mechanical TV systems that pre-dated the CRT-based &#8220;electronic TV&#8221; invented by Philo Farnsworth. But I never really understood how they worked until I saw this Hack-A-Day article by Jenny List. And wow, I see it now. Nipkow discs. Color TV. Parts made in a 3D printer. Excellent. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here is Jenny&#8217;s post: <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2022\/05\/27\/3d-print-a-colour-tv\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2022\/05\/27\/3d-print-a-colour-tv\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here&#8217;s the IEEE Spectrum article by Markus Mierse (the brilliant fellow who built this amazing device): <\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/mechanical-tv\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/mechanical-tv<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Be sure to watch the video (above). Take a look at the awesome quality of the 32 line color TV picture. And check out Marcus&#8217;s amazingly beautiful construction. (Note: Built on a wooden base). <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Mechanical20TV.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1011\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Mechanical20TV.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>Marcus Mierse&#8217;s Modern Mechanical Color TV<\/b><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had, of course, heard about the mechanical TV systems that pre-dated the CRT-based &#8220;electronic TV&#8221; invented by Philo Farnsworth. But I never really understood how they worked until I saw this Hack-A-Day article by Jenny List. And wow, I see it now. Nipkow discs. Color TV. Parts made in a 3D printer. Excellent. Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/a-modern-mechanical-television-nipkow-discs-and-arduinos-lead-to-a-mechanical-color-tv-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Modern Mechanical Television &#8212; Nipkow Discs and Arduinos Lead to a Mechanical Color TV (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,67,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amateur-television","category-arduino","category-farnsworth-philo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}