Reminded me of NYU's Wooden Mirror Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb6eFGbwPeA
Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
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#52Best practical application of glue stick ever!
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#53Speaking of "alternatives to e-ink for a zero-power-use-when-not-updating dot-matrix display"... Has there ever been designed a "display" that is just a thermal printer hidden in one end of a box, and a take-up spool + tensioning spring hidden on the other end, such that the "display" is then a continuous thermal paper "scroll" stretched across the box behind [UV-protective!] glass, that can be "refreshed" by printin…
If you wanted to take this a little further, you could cover the "display" with heat erasable ink like is used in a Pilot Frixion pens. This ink is interesting in that it fades when heated (60 C), but darkens when cooled (-10 C). In between those temperatures it is stable. Thus you could have one loop that is continuously reused. Not sure how many cycles you can get before the ink degrades.
I like that idea. The printing process should probably be inverted: cool the paper as a whole to darken the whole sheet amd use a small heating coil to erase.
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#54When you commit, you really commit. What an incredibly cool project.
I need to go find some corgi art to upload next!
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#55It may be "ridiculous" but the fact remains that you are (clearly) awesome.
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#56Really cool! I just watched it finish "cat saying 'hi'". It doesn't look like any new posts have shown up on @kilopx.com on Bluesky for the last 9 days though. A few suggestions for improvements: - After completing a submission, move the "pen" out of the way as much as possible to get a clean photo of the completed art before moving onto the next submission. - On the website, show attribution for the currently in-pro…
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#57I'm working on something similar, but 3D and faster motion: PinThing / TAP (Tangible Actuated Pins) [1]
"Motorized pin art display" is what i'm going for...
The problem with passion projects: Progress is never as much or as fast as I want, though! Hard to find the people who want to throw money at things like this and/or buy them. And anything mechanical gets complicated and expensive very quickly. But it's so much fun and a great way to learn and apply so many new skills: laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling, circuit design, embedded programming, etc.
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#58This 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
> I created a reciprocating poking mechanism that uses a flexible glue stick
With the most cost effective and creative "wear item" ever.
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#59A refresh rate of 370 microhertz gives "Calm Technology" a whole new meaning. I love it.
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#60Very nice!
> I have a mechanism to quickly delete problem submissions.
Did you build a male genitalia swastika classifier like the fish guy? (What a sentence)