oh my god that was so sweet!
wish i was nifty with the screwdriver :(

Posted at 5:22 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by ace of face

that is amazing! i wonder if they will post a video of it running. the globe looks unbelievable!

they could probably make kits and a number of folks may go for them..

Posted at 5:31 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by silic0re

wait!! imagine multiple, smaller concentric rings within each other to add /depth/! that would definitely be worth persuing!

Posted at 5:35 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by silic0re

I have a simpler one of these, it is just a spinning ring with the led’s hooked up to some oscillators and other random stuff that you can use to make diferent floating patters. I still prefer a good cylinder pov any day ;)

Posted at 5:58 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by ...

Finally a 3D display.

Posted at 6:19 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by Crash

That is AWESOME! I’d love to actually see this thing spin (and/or make one myself).

Posted at 7:48 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by Groxx

cool!!!
think steve’ll like the led’s?

Posted at 8:28 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by vskid3

now THAT is pretty awesome!

we should get working on holographic stuff. Great ideas always come from independant inventors.

Posted at 10:28 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by mrcharlie

Once I see a pic of it doing a Death Star, then I’ll believe it’s cool.

Posted at 11:23 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by Del

I think that would be hilarious to see it doing the death star… and I would Def. buy a kit if they made one.
What I think would be really awesome, is if someone did two or three rings, set like a gyroscope.

Posted at 12:26 am on Dec 20th, 2006 by demosthenese

Awesome looking globe. Gotta have a crack at knocking up one of those myself.
Gotta agree on how damn cool a death star would be- colours couldn’t be easy to get right though.
http://digg.com/gadgets/Amazing_3D_Persistence_Of_Vision_POV_Sphere

Posted at 1:56 am on Dec 20th, 2006 by Xan O'Shea

Fantastic.

“Many Bothans died, to bring us this information.”

Posted at 11:23 am on Dec 20th, 2006 by pragma

silic0re: instead of concentric rings, a disc should work too i think. Much simpler.

Posted at 11:43 am on Dec 20th, 2006 by Hans

KICKASS

Posted at 1:31 pm on Dec 20th, 2006 by dylan willemsa

seems like the batteries spin with it as a counter weight.

Posted at 3:02 pm on Dec 20th, 2006 by sdedalus

Man that looks sweeet. Can’t wait for some videos of it in motion. Speaking of video man that would be super cool to display. Eventually I bet we will see it.

Posted at 7:41 pm on Dec 20th, 2006 by Aviator747

Great idea, I can see real uses for this technique if it is more refined, I see myself doing a few online orders after christmas ;-)

Posted at 10:16 am on Dec 21st, 2006 by Chris

that is a really sweet idea..

however this project really has too few led’s to properly be considered a hack.. every good hack has lots more led’s.

10ts more = 31337 hax

Posted at 9:09 pm on Dec 21st, 2006 by andrew

The one with the two motors and spinning disks seems backwards to me. I would use a shaft that had two hub motors and a spiral pattern of slots cut into the disk towards the edge of the motor to allow for optical sensors to act as a resolver.Thus giving a location of the disk at any given moment.
Being that they would want speed and not torque, the hub motors would work well for this application.
This would put the weight of the system to the center and allow for an unobstructed view.

Posted at 3:50 pm on Oct 20th, 2007 by charles urrea