[Swansea Hackspace] Flip dot displays...

[Nathan Hackett]

Hi all, thanks for the replies! I work overnight Fri and Sat so I'm afraid
I posted my message then went straight to bed sorry!

David you're right we could fabricate something similar, but it would
probably end up much more expensive for a panel this size. 96x16 pixels at
£200 is an incredible 13p per flip-dot. There's more than enough hacking to
do to get them connected anyway. It might be cool to attempt some 7-segment
mechanical displays though? Much more manageable for a DIY project.

The guy also has some nice looking 20x14 units for £64.99 which maybe
someone is interested in? Ultimately I'll be picking up one of these myself
regardless - it seems the technology is being superseded by LEDs and I want
to get one before they all disappear.

Brian your point about shop displays is precisely why I started looking for
these in the first place... ;-)

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:50 PM, David Davies-Day <djdavies83 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> DIY Is possible...
>
> http://m.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Domino-clock/?ALLSTEPS
>
> No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Brian J Hoskins <brianjhoskins at gmail.com>
> Date:14/05/2016 2:36 PM (GMT+00:00)
> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Flip dot displays...
>
> Wow! I don't think I've ever seen these before. I mean... Of course I've
> seen them on the buses, but I didn't actually realise they worked like this.
>
> This seems like it might be an ideal display for my high tide early
> warning project, as I had been worried about the problem of direct sunlight
> for a regular LED dot matrix display.
>
> Will have to see if one of these will fit...
>
> PLUS
>
> This would be a great shop front display? The council can't complain about
> flashing lights in this case.
> On 14 May 2016 10:51, "Nathan Hackett" <nhackett1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's a load of these on ebay at the moment, they very rarely come up so
> I thought some of you might be interested.
> http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111987288114
>
> The same seller has several different sizes listed, all auctions ending
> today. I've contacted him and he's offered £200 (inc postage) for one 96x16
> panel or £350 for two, so if there's anyone that wants to split an order
> with me and save some money that'd be great. Seems expensive, but look how
> cool these things are...
>
> https://vimeo.com/78236205
>
> Mine's gonna be a huge clock. :)
>
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