Forever 21 Thread Screen

[tszaboo]

Such a unique idea. I had to share it with you.




F21ThreadScreen.com

The F21 Thread Screen has a resolution of just 80 pixels by 80 pixels, and in order to get that measly resolution, it uses 6,400 spools, nearly seven miles of fabric, and thousands of motors and gears. Each “pixel” is actually a 5.5-foot strip of threaded material, each of which can display 36 colors depending on what part of each multicolored strip is showing on the front of the machine.

I'm not affiliated with this project.

[German_EE]

OK, that's neat 

So far we've had dancing penguins and loops of colored cloth on rolls. Any other ideas for a low-res display?

[Mechanical Menace]

I can spin and weave. I really hope that isn't the only reason I think this is very cool.

So far we've had dancing penguins and loops of colored cloth on rolls. Any other ideas for a low-res display?

Minecraft can be cool for that. No I am not ashamed of saying that.

[rsjsouza]

Ah, the venerable DS1052E shows up on the video... 

(BTW, the screen is pretty cool)

[amyk]

OK, that's neat 

So far we've had dancing penguins and loops of colored cloth on rolls. Any other ideas for a low-res display?

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[Rick Law]

OK, that's neat 

So far we've had dancing penguins and loops of colored cloth on rolls. Any other ideas for a low-res display?

A bunch of fans sitting in specific seats in a stadium each holding different color cards.  They raise different color card on cue.  That is low res but done in many different kind of stadium games.

While this is common in modern day football (and other) games, I wonder had the Romans tried that.  Pure congesture on my part.    Imagine: Caligula makes certain signal, and the fans in the Colosseum raise purple cards together display a dot matrix word saying (in Latin, of course) "Good Horse Makes Better Senators."