@thomasfuchs have you heard of the Cromenco Cyclops? It uses a decapsulated 1 kilobit DRAM chip as the image sensor and can be built from plans in Popular Electronics (Feb 1975). Here's a selfie at an astounding 32x32 pixels:
@th @thomasfuchs oh gosh yessss the cromemco dazzler. I need to build one at some point.
Has anyone converted the magazine PCB layout to Gerber's yet?