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alternative display research:

written on Aug 24, 2026.

  • research
  • electrowetting on ribbon cable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD0h2jBZXCI
    • build using conductive pla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpo1P5eEUU8
  • servos & mirrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xb58mso78&t=42s
  • actuators & pins (inform by mit-media-lab): https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/
    • actuator & mesh: https://mischertraxler.com/projects/plural-and-spannungsfeld/
  • water mist / ultrasonic atomization of water: https://blair-neal.gitbook.io/survey-of-alternative-displays/experimental-other/ultrasonic-atomization-of-water
  • ultrasonic sound levitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-wAGqZ_Qcg&t=48s
    • to build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgBzRgAFNs
    • better tutorial & explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMT-MGv2cw
    • array-build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEZvYlUnEM

  • repo of alternative-displays: https://blair-neal.gitbook.io/survey-of-alternative-displays/alternative-displays/overview
  • kelly heaton physical pixel thesis: https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kelly/physPix/heatonThesis.pdf

related:

  • graspable ui: https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/research/publications-assets/pdf/bricks-laying-the-foundations.pdf → move pixels to rearrange them.
  • venous materials (mit media lab): https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/venous-materials/

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