Palm-Sized POV TV Raspberry: A Raspberry Pi Pico, a stepper motor, and a spinning disk of holes turn five LEDs into a pocket-sized color TV you can build in an afternoon.
Clear a corner of your workbench and gather a handful of parts, because this palm-sized television is an afternoon build, not a semester project. Here is the shopping list for a Scanwheel of your own:
A Raspberry Pi Pico to run the show
An A4988 stepper driver
A 21-02485 stepper motor (or a similar small NEMA-style unit)
Five LEDs, plus current-limiting resistors
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