I Built a Mechanical Digital Camera With a Nipkow Disk

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See how I built a mechanical camera using an old record that I turned into a Nipkow disk.
The principle was already patented in the year 1884 by Paul Nipkow and realized 40 years later by John Logie Baird. Now I reinvented it, using a state-of-the-art stepper motor and a Raspberry Pi. Although the images are blurry, distorted and black and white, you can neverteless recognize what´s on them.
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  • @Callmedstone
    @Callmedstone2 жыл бұрын

    Best conclusion ever!

  • @muslimsharki8966

    @muslimsharki8966

    Жыл бұрын

    at the last of video does your produced photos the black and white or the colored ? i don't understand

  • @seeinghearingengineering7368
    @seeinghearingengineering73682 жыл бұрын

    You can understand very well how the Nipkow Disc works. And your enthusiasm.

  • @smlpcollective4166
    @smlpcollective41662 жыл бұрын

    Hey hi! Just wanted to say that I teach engineering students, and will be sharing this as an illustration of how Nipkow disks work (in the context of confocal scanning microscopes) with my students. They will love this! Thanks for sharing this.

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nice to read this. Hope they enjoy.

  • @smlpcollective4166

    @smlpcollective4166

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorVolt Indeed they will!

  • @SiskinOnUTube
    @SiskinOnUTube Жыл бұрын

    It would be interesting to see that made with an infrared temperature sensor. you could do thermal imaging.

  • @Ootgreet1
    @Ootgreet14 ай бұрын

    Love the tuxedo kitty's expression. He's like "Dad! The resolution of that thing will suck! At least use a vidicon!"

  • @fragglet
    @fragglet5 ай бұрын

    Sure, the images are hard to make out, but the teapot at least looks pretty good!

  • @vtbn53
    @vtbn532 жыл бұрын

    If you redrill the holes to take (via a push fit) optical quality acrylic balls (making it a so called bead disk) you will solve your light and resolution issues. Interesting concept (still camera).

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, there are many other ways to make this camera better. For example drilling more holes, using a photomultiplier instead of the photodiode etc.

  • @marcsmithsonian9773
    @marcsmithsonian9773 Жыл бұрын

    Use a photoresistor it can be thousand times mire sensitive then photo diode, also you can try with photon multiplier tube from old night vision device, that can increase sensitiviti to mental high level. Good luck !

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    Жыл бұрын

    I already thought of using an avalanche diode. But These are rather expensive, though.

  • @marcsmithsonian9773

    @marcsmithsonian9773

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorVoltwhy not LDR ? Or get broken drum scanner brand like "screen" or "linotype" there are using photon multiplier sensor... and scan using same principle like your device but extremely sensitive. Old night vision googles are 20$ in thrift stores, or broken on ebay. Cheers M

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marcsmithsonian9773 I tried LDRs as well. These have a bigger surface than photo diodes and thus can collect more light. But it turned out that they react very sluggishly on poor light condition. So image quality with photo diodes was way better than with LDR.

  • @greenaum
    @greenaum4 ай бұрын

    Did you think of using an LDR rather than a photodiode? And an analogue amp front-end to make it more sensitive and perhaps give a better range, by mapping values to something more linear, to compensate against the non-linearity of your sensor? If you switch to an LDR you might not need to re-map, they may be more linear in a certain range. Baird managed live video with whatever awful light sensor he had back then, some sort of vacuum tube, possibly using selenium.You also might try using R,G,B leds, pulsing each one in turn for each pixel as the Nipkow disc moves round, assuming your sensor is fast enough. With enough light, it'll likely be quicker in response. Then you'd have colour! Alternatively, have 3 LDRs with a colour filter in front of each one. In fact a larger LDR might be more sensitive, too, or perhaps use a couple in parallel. Whatever, you'd just need to focus to a wider spot at that point. It would be dimmer, but you fix that with strong lighting, the same way they did back in the early days of TV. Really, Baird gets far too much credit, when his invention is just applying a Nipkow disc to it's intended purpose. Nipkow deserves more than half the credit for Baird's television. It's the working element, nothing would work without it. Ultimately though it was Farnsworth who made television that was actually practical, Baird's idea didn't last long, before the world dumped mechanically-scanned TV altogether.

  • @AjinkyaMahajan
    @AjinkyaMahajan2 жыл бұрын

    Great Work!!!

  • @estebanmartinez1293
    @estebanmartinez12935 ай бұрын

    Awesome!!! Great work

  • @SpokenBroke
    @SpokenBroke2 жыл бұрын

    I love your assessment :D

  • @WolfPackYT
    @WolfPackYT4 ай бұрын

    Super cool!

  • @youvebeenspooked
    @youvebeenspooked Жыл бұрын

    nice work man!

  • @erikmolnar6585
    @erikmolnar65852 жыл бұрын

    Great video! I am not educated in such things but I still felt like the info was easy to understand. The big picture at least. You know, you ruined that poor record though! Joking. Cheers from South Texas

  • @fantasticania
    @fantasticania4 күн бұрын

    I love the cat ;)

  • @thyraptor8519
    @thyraptor851910 ай бұрын

    5:16 FREDERICK FREDDY FAZBEAR!!???!!??

  • @Eli-dx2uj
    @Eli-dx2uj6 ай бұрын

    Shouldve gone down the flying spot scanner route

  • @alexanderstrelets8234
    @alexanderstrelets82344 ай бұрын

    I can't believe the photodiode is so slow. What was the original sensor type those days?

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    4 ай бұрын

    The photodiode is so slow because it has to make do with very little light.

  • @LeonardoPJ
    @LeonardoPJ2 жыл бұрын

    Very cool. Do you have any idea how you could make a sensor like this to identify color?

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, with a color sensor instead of the plain photo diode we could even take color photos.

  • @edgeeffect
    @edgeeffect Жыл бұрын

    Most of the records I owned made weird noises but no music. ;)

  • @VVerVVurm
    @VVerVVurm Жыл бұрын

    now feed the output into one of the AI denoising/upscaling algorithms for a 4k picture xD

  • @sebastiankusyk7764
    @sebastiankusyk77642 жыл бұрын

    maybe some filter would reduce the noise to enable more fps? If recorded objects don't move too fast, the signal will repeat with the same frequency that frames repeat, while I think noise frequency distribution won't depend on it. Also you can cover some edge to get repeatedly pure noise to measure it's parameters.

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    2 жыл бұрын

    I already tried different filters, iterations etc. in GIMP. But nothing really improved the quality of the pictures.

  • @kocovgoce
    @kocovgoce2 жыл бұрын

    maybe if on the nip disk is make quite small openings somewhere around 400 it is possible to obtain a sufficiently sharp image?

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I know that there were Nipkow disks with up to 441 lines resolution, until the electronical cameras came up.

  • @kocovgoce

    @kocovgoce

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorVolt do you have a link or a photo of this 441 lines nipkow disk ?

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    2 жыл бұрын

    I read about it in an article. second.wiki/wiki/filmabtaster

  • @kocovgoce

    @kocovgoce

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorVolt thanks

  • @vladimirkesaev6818
    @vladimirkesaev6818 Жыл бұрын

    replace a diode with a pyrometer and your optics with reflectors and it could be a nice thermal-vision system... ;)

  • @gamebox-13

    @gamebox-13

    Жыл бұрын

    No, it will always show temperature of the disc

  • @Steven-re7xt
    @Steven-re7xt Жыл бұрын

    Nix bad. 100 ano alt tec. Ja Mir frund. Danke zier. Some times used to xmit "wanted" photo!

  • @weegie3343
    @weegie3343 Жыл бұрын

    when you can’t afford a webcam:

  • @wilfredswinkels
    @wilfredswinkels8 ай бұрын

    If you put a PIR sensor in place of the photodiode you could see IR....imagine if you put an 5GHz antenna in place (and modded your setup a tiny bit :-p ) you could see in 5GHz

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    8 ай бұрын

    But I'd have to focus the IR or 5GHz image on the nipkow disk somehow.

  • @Elglassios
    @Elglassios Жыл бұрын

    Hallo. Kommst du aus Ostdeutschland?

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    Жыл бұрын

    Nein...

  • @Elglassios

    @Elglassios

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorVolt ich dachte wegen der Schallplatte.

  • @DoctorVolt

    @DoctorVolt

    Жыл бұрын

    Stimmt. Habe sie mir vor langer, langer Zeit in Ostberlin gekauft.

  • @georgemikael9043
    @georgemikael9043 Жыл бұрын

    I from paris

  • @georgemikael9043
    @georgemikael9043 Жыл бұрын

    Speak french! Please

  • @treadmillrepair754
    @treadmillrepair754 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing

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