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That it, the method will forever be called the Vanna White Method
Ben, can I get a vowel, please?
$250!
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
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#112Oh hey, I know you IRL from the PHP meetups! I've been watching this develop on Bluesky! Super cool project.
Hey, I know you! Thanks for checking it out, looking forward to seeing you at the next PHP×MSP!
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#113https://benholmen.com/assets/images/kilopixel/assembling-tim...
Legends say this is how MicroLEDs are made, one pixel at a time. That's why they are so expensive.
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#114Come on
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#115I have to confess I only skimmed it, but it seems that if the choice is to rotate an object, then using a simple flap on an axis would be both cheaper and likely faster (less mass to move). I realize that efficiency was not a goal, but it does align with the pricing issue.
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#116it's mandatory to play bad apple on it.
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#117Opening the site and immediately seeing it drawing a frame from Bad Apple was amusing, I suspect someone will attempt to automate submissions of frames from that video at some point.
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#118This has to be the the most expensive cost per pixel display I've ever seen. And I've never loved a display more. This is absurd in the best possible way
Some more fabulous expensive pixels, the Danny Rosin mirrors mentioned in the article: https://youtu.be/0o_9CHYeRvI
I came to post about Rosin's work as well. I personally love that he uses clever lighting and angles to create the shading for his pixels instead of just painting one side. It makes it feel like a mirror, all one material like a magic wallhanging.
That said the one I experienced was an earlier work had was fully driven by hobby servos (or something that sounded very much like them) and when you get even one of those going it's loud as hell. I didn't get to look at the construction too closely and this was many years ago. I expect that he did some kind of sound dampening because it wasn't as.. deafening as I expected. But it still kinda 'took me out of it' a bit.
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#119I wonder how hard it would be to get two consecutive images that are pixel-wise inverses of each other in the queue; maximum rendering time!
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#120As an experiment, I just spray painted 66 magnet spheres in half, to make a physical display in 5 minutes. I manually rotated the sphere into position and it holds the image.
https://gist.github.com/unrealwill/b8f585758880009113805bd95...
Small spherical magnets are quite cheap.
There is hope of physically moving them if you put each sphere into a 3d-printed countersink hole over some metal sheet (so that the magnet is hold in place against the plastic), moving a electro-magnet head over you can rotate the magnet, like a scaled-up version of a 2d magnetic tape.
You may even create a Ising model if you put magnets too close to each other.