Quote: Originally Posted by jammy_basturd
So they could be usuable?? I think I found an even smaller one on there as well. IIRC, from when I read a 'How things work' guide the image is split into R G B and then shone at those mirrors? So we'd still have to find something to project the image?
These are used in "DLP" Projection TVs and other Projectors. There's only one of them and a bright white bulb as the light source. Between the white light source and the chip is a RGB color wheel that spins very fast. The projector synchronizes itself to this wheel and "turns on" the pixels for each color as theat color is being created by the color wheel. In this way, the one (normally) expensive sensor can use an inexpensive white light bulb to create full-color images.