Mathew Lippincott’s blog on design and DIY aerospace
October 6th, 2009

6 weeks, 480 frames: a mutoscope cartridge

Where I’ve been the last six weeks is cartridge land.  Lots of production problems.  For the hub I had to switch from lathe/cnc to stereolithography, and the polystyrene (generic .015″ plasticard) had processing problems that the printer had to work out (beautiful now).  Mounting the cards into the hub took several tries as well… Big gallery here, a gallery where I’ll be collecting a lot more work soon (2008 WSCCPR videos will be back up Real Soon Now).

waterbeetle died for scale

The next step is to attach the finished projector to the player with speedrail.

me holding projection unit

4 Comments »

  1. this look great!!!!! a far way to have come from the mini model you built and carried around in tin foil..
    <3

    Comment by maya — October 8, 2009 @ 12:58 PM
  2. yes! yes!! yes!!!

    Comment by kalan — October 15, 2009 @ 6:11 AM
  3. Amazing! I have been attempting to make one of these for a university project but it is so much harder than originally thought!!

    Comment by Sylvanna — August 25, 2010 @ 9:03 AM
  4. This is great! You said you used plasticard for the pages? Could you telll me, what adhesive did you use to mount the pages to the core? Also, do you have any concerns about acid content?

    Comment by Marcus — January 17, 2011 @ 8:34 PM

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