The device
The next step was to build an actual physical device. I went to the V&A Childhood Museum to an original phenakistoscope which was made in about 1850. I have also checked another animation devices of that time. Then through the deeper research and experiments, we figured out, that it will not work without a mirror because you could see the animation without it only when the disk rotates with the certain speed which is almost impossible to achieve using SAM’s DC motor. So then I have made a small paper prototype just to get a general… More