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By: Head Full of Air » Why I Made a Mutoscope (design rationale)

Head Full of Air » Why I Made a Mutoscope (design rationale) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:31:45 +0000

[...] are many reasons to love mutoscopes, from nostalgia to mechanical beauty, but any expensive niche medium competing with less expensive [...]

By: Head Full of Air » Mutoscope Finishing & Miniaturizing

Head Full of Air » Mutoscope Finishing & Miniaturizing — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14:39 +0000

[...] Resistor’s craft night I cut a 500-card capacity hub based on the original dimensions of the Kinora. Wonderfully meta: the Kinora hub is laser cut out of spare Mutoscope cards. A miniature mutoscope [...]

By: Head Full of Air » Other Mutoscopes + Micro Movie Projectors!

Head Full of Air » Other Mutoscopes + Micro Movie Projectors! — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:43:14 +0000

[...] or more the flipping of the cards would be much smoother. A worm drive is nearly ubiquitous amongst classic mutoscopes. Sergey Gavrilenko, Director of the Museum of the History of the Development of the World [...]

By: Head Full of Air » Blast Domes and Opaque Projectors

Head Full of Air » Blast Domes and Opaque Projectors — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:06:14 +0000

[...] in the dome I drifted back to my obsession of the last two months- the R & D of an updated mutoscope standard. I’m using hemispherical reflectors in mutoscope’s opaque projector, and [...]

By: Head Full of Air » Ready for West Coast Island Living (just arrived at ToorCamp)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:25:24 +0000

[...] houses. They’re a great place to not own a car. I gotta come back to New York to finish the mutoscope in September (been too busy to post, but I’ve got lots to show), but in the mean time, [...]