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by cr0sh 2688 days ago
Something to keep in mind is that mirror scanning for television is a very old technology, dating back to the beginnings of mechanically scanned TV:

http://dci-forum.com/back-roots-tv-history-beginning/24/mech...

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Yes. There's a long history of ideas in this space. DLP projectors, with a MEMS mirror for each pixel, are one of the few successful examples. Any system where you illuminate only one pixel at a time flickers horribly, which is why this sort of thing is used for laser light shows and not much else.
- now if you can send the beam[s] through a tft display minus the backplate, and darken pixels you dont want to illuminate then scan the beam across the whole thing...This has a madmax or a maxheadroom sort of appeal to it.

i was trying to find the mems mirror around but couldnt , still looking for dead projectors to throw in the morgue of parts.

I do have wide streak of steampunk, i love retrotech, espescially when using junkyard parts and a few mailorder bits together.