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Re: Flipdiscs

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Post by IshKebab »

londons_explore wrote: post #18
ofrzeta wrote: post #5

I bought a flip dot display on eBay and now I am stuck with the old thing and my lack of knowledge to make it work. Here's a great resource about technical details (only German though) https://radow.org/flip-dot.php EDIT: "They have high readability, a long lifespan, and achieves anywhere between 25-60fps" - I think you can't achieve 60fps with a flip dot display.

Depends how much power and noise you're willing for it to make!! Remember that texas instruments DLP technology which is in use in pretty much every office/home cinema projector is effectively micro flip-dots micromachined in silicon, and that can operate at ~10,000 FPS.

Uhm yeah they are a lot smaller. That makes a difference obviously.

Re: Flipdiscs

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Post by ricardobeat »

If I’m not mistaken (their pricing is a bit hard to find), nine of the flip fits display modules will set you back ~$5000 alone, plus the rest of the hardware. While I love the idea that is a lot of fun budget for other projects…

Re: Flipdiscs

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Post by grishka »

jimnotgym wrote: post #44

Lookmumnocomputer did some nice work for thismuseumisnotobsolete with flip displays. See on YouTube or visit in person

If you're into electromechanical machines, he also has a working telephone exchange and a bunch of videos where he restores its various components and explains how it works (I still don't quite understand how it works though). That's the original reason I subscribed to his channel, but his wild musical contraptions are also cool.

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Post by stavros »

ricardobeat wrote: post #52

If I’m not mistaken (their pricing is a bit hard to find), nine of the flip fits display modules will set you back ~$5000 alone, plus the rest of the hardware. While I love the idea that is a lot of fun budget for other projects…

Thanks, I've been looking for that. Interesting how nowadays it's orders of magnitude cheaper to buy a 4k 65" panel and fake the dots (and sound) on it.

Re: Flipdiscs

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Post by scrumper »

laserbeam wrote: post #54

Damn, I really wish there was a T in "Quick jazzy vibe flows from exploding pixels", 'cause the sentence is just cool!

From the exploding pixels and then you're fine. You needed an H as well anyway.

Re: Flipdiscs

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Post by fiatpandas »

lgrebe wrote: post #40

Andrew Zolty under the artist name BREAKFAST has created quite a few stunning kinetic artworks with flipdisks. Just one example: https://theartistbreakfast.com/works/traverse Also created a larger more sculpted derivative the „brixel“ a rotating brick as pixel. Eg https://theartistbreakfast.com/works/oceans

This is the product they commercialized: https://flipdisc.co/

Last I heard a number of years ago it’s around $2000/sq ft. Around the same price scale as mid range LED wall modules.

Re: Flipdiscs

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Post by whynotmaybe »

soblemprolver wrote: post #47

It is so sad to see both this and the title "It's ok to abandon your side project" on the front page while I have three flipdisc displays sitting in the basement without the time and equipment to get them up and running. No, it's not ok to abandon those flipdisc displays! :( Admittedly I read neither of the articles. But who doesn't sometimes get caught up in the conincidence of titles on here may vote me down :D

Unless you've thrown everything away, your side project isn't abandoned, it's reprioritized.
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