Anyways, it got me thinking about digital information and how it's brought to us. I know it's ones and zeros at some level but I still can't get my head around how all the information is stored inside the device. I have to imagine billions of minuscule ones and zeros all in a tiny container. How can I be so close to technology but have no real idea how it works? You try and look inside but there's really nothing to see.
I found one way to illustrate this idea, to take a USB microscope and to record in close up detail the computer screen itself. No image as such but just the screen pixels. And what's it looking at? Well, itself - the screen image of the output of the microscope looking at what the screen output of the microscope is looking at. A nice feedback loop. I used to do this with video cameras back in the 1980s by pointing the camera at the monitor output for the camera - an easy psychedelic effect.
Here's some examples:
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