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The disc moves, but there aren't any moving mechanical parts to cause it to move. It's done with electromagnetic pulses. I'll update it to make this more clear.
I don't really see what the distinction is? You might as well say a motor has no moving parts, because it's done with electromagnetic impulses. But that would be absurd. Obviously the hinge of each disc will wear and tear and eventually fail. Buildups of dust and oil will affect them too and prevent them from flipping. Flipdiscs are as mechanical as mechanical parts get. You writing in the intro: "...have no moving p…
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The disc moves, but there aren't any moving mechanical parts to cause it to move. It's done with electromagnetic pulses. I'll update it to make this more clear.
I don't really see what the distinction is? You might as well say a motor has no moving parts, because it's done with electromagnetic impulses. But that would be absurd. Obviously the hinge of each disc will wear and tear and eventually fail. Buildups of dust and oil will affect them too and prevent them from flipping. Flipdiscs are as mechanical as mechanical parts get. You writing in the intro: "...have no moving p…
Though I do wish for more accuracy. These things are totally moving parts, and there is no way they have even a long lifespan, let alone a "near limitless" one. Though to be precise, "near limitless" is meaningless.
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#54How exactly did the author get the panels? I've looked into stuff like this before and it's basically impossible to source outside of things like eBay. Unless you're willing to buy industrial quantities at industrial prices. How did they buy them, and for how much?
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#55The beginning of the demo video is reminiscent of Ye Olde Wooden Mirror https://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html or more recently https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp/news/spring-2024/daniel-rozin--itp...
Ingenious!
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#57> Flip displays are an interesting alternative. They have no moving parts, What? The display is made almost entirely of moving discs.
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#58Where is the obligatory Touhou Bad Apple animation on this black-and-white display?
For the unawares, the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8
My favorite version, also using real-life objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT-fdnIK0k0 (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527559)
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#59Whats the expected lifetime for a flipdisc display like that
over 150 million operations on average -- from alfazeta documentation
Assuming (literally just a guess) that the tiles "operate" at a rate of 3 times per second playing back a video or something:
(150 million operation) / (3 operations/ second) = 50 million seconds = 578 days
It's likely much slower than 3 operations per second too - so probably 6-10x that in reality, which would be on the order of a decade of continuous runtime before they reach expected EOL.
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#60In a world of flat featureless screens, I really love the physicality of this. Even the noise it makes. It feels like it communicates a lot more than its raw “pixel” count would suggest.