With dimensions of 80×80 pixels, the F21 Thread Screen won’t be challenging 4K on the resolution front. But it looks beautiful, writes Tim Moynihan, scraping Instagram feeds, downsizing images, and rendering them in spinning spools of color.
…it uses 6,400 spools, nearly seven miles of fabric, and thousands of motors and gears. Each “pixel” is actually a 5.5-foot strip of threaded material, each of which can display 36 colors depending on what part of each multicolored strip is showing on the front of the machine.
It was made by design agency Breakfast for retailer Forever 21. Here’s some videos that goes into its creation and show how it does its thing.
