This is awesome! Just so you know, you are legally obligated to do Bad Apple when interest dies down.
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
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Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
#12This is awesome! Just so you know, you are legally obligated to do Bad Apple when interest dies down.
By my estimation, it would only take 1/3 of a year to render
Re: Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
#13This is awesome! Just so you know, you are legally obligated to do Bad Apple when interest dies down.
By my estimation, it would only take 1/3 of a year to render
y'know, I've been excited / feared that Bad Apple would show up. The good news is a lot of frames would probably just be a few pixels to change from the previous frame, so some might draw really quickly.
Basically you want to avoid keyframes on this thing, they'll kill you
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#14Amazing.
Could turn this into a 4 color display at the cost of drawing speed?
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#15Really cool and it would totally work for a restaurant/coffee shop.
I think I might put this in my friend's coffee shop but I'll restrict access to people in the coffee shop. Not going to let the internet get a hold of that. In addition to the user-controlled modes I also have ambient modes. My favorite is a clock that struggles to draw the current time because it takes too long
You gotta do the classic bouncing logo from The Office.
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#16Amazing. Could turn this into a 4 color display at the cost of drawing speed?
Yes! I have an RGB sensor that could handle that, but it's more bulky than the simple IR on/off sensor I went with. Could be four colors, or four shades of a color.
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#17You could order the presentation of a set of images by some distance metric :)
- naively: Levenshtein
- better: real world edit time based on a model of the display : probably dominated by XY travel distance
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#18Wow. Impressive. I would never have guessed you'd use a Vanna White / Wheel of Fortune turning method.
That it, the method will forever be called the Vanna White Method
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#19There was a fish project on here a few days ago that also had to deal with uh... adverserial images and it was (mostly?) solved by training a neural net to detect those.
TTFP will surely be < 1 day
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#20This is so great
How is it volume wise while it's working? Manageable or painful?