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Rotating Monitor - Automatic Control (how I did it)

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saint:

Very nice!  Mirrored for posterity. Won't post it unless something happens to the original site. Very nice work!

patrickl:


--- Quote from: javeryh on October 24, 2007, 09:06:06 am ---The more I think about it the more certain I am that I'll be rotating the monitor in my next build.  I just need to think of a way that you can't see the circle or notice that it rotates before it happens...

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I've always been dead set on having a rotating monitor in my design. I'm going for an LCD monitor, so then I started to think why not just buy a bigger monitor? Instead of 21"why not go for 24" (or even bigger)?

BTW All these rotating designs do make me want a rotating monitor though. Even if only for the coolness factor

javeryh:


--- Quote from: mountain on October 24, 2007, 09:29:33 am ---Great stuff, thanks for posting this!


--- Quote from: javeryh on October 24, 2007, 09:06:06 am ---The more I think about it the more certain I am that I'll be rotating the monitor in my next build.  I just need to think of a way that you can't see the circle or notice that it rotates before it happens...

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You could mount it behind smoked glass. The circuitry is there to allow one, with the use of a few relays, to turn off power to the monitor while it rotates.

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I was thinking of using smoked glass to hide the seam... turning the monitor off while it rotates would be wicked cool.

2600:


--- Quote from: patrickl on October 24, 2007, 09:52:47 am ---I've always been dead set on having a rotating monitor in my design. I'm going for an LCD monitor, so then I started to think why not just buy a bigger monitor? Instead of 21"why not go for 24" (or even bigger)?

BTW All these rotating designs do make me want a rotating monitor though. Even if only for the coolness factor

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That's why some people get 27" monitors.  When mounted horizontally, vertical games are the same size as if on a 19".


It is pretty cool though and the video is nice.  Instead of using the Parallel Port, the circuit should be able to be easily modified to use a LED-WIZ or PacDrive.

Cornchip:

  Great work on the web site! Thanks for the info. I can't believe how far this topic has gone in such a short amount of time.

 Cornchip.

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