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Old 24th Mar 2006, 6:46 pm   #11
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Default Re: An interesting magic eye substitution

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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
I've been toying with building several EM34 replacements. One is relatively simple and involves using a high brightness green LED shining on an opaque EM34 shaped screen. This would just get brighter as the signal strength gets higher. It would probably look more like a conventional magic eye once a station had been tuned in.
This soundls like it could be quite simple and look decent, if not completely authentic in its operation.

Is there any way of getting the right shade of "fluorescent" green, I wonder?
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