[Swansea Hackspace] Flip dot display group project...

[Nathan Hackett]

I'm definitely less qualified than all of you when it comes to picking the
most appropriate boards and chips, so I'll defer to your expertise!
Will bring the seventh panel, the other control board (if I can find it)
plus an 8 channel logic analyser on Monday so those interested can have a
tinker and figure out a plan. If anyone has ideas for suitable
grease/lubricant for the tiny metal hinges on the dots, please bring that
along to test. Needs to be fairly viscous I would guess, the hinges
themselves are loosely seated in holes in the plastic housing. Would be
great to solve the "sticking dot" problem without resorting to mechanically
"tapping" the panels.

It appears the same seller I bought from still has panels for sale, he's
more than doubled his prices though... Don't think we'll be picking up more
any time soon!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/psv_automobilia/m.html

It's great that Wednesdays are starting to fill up. :)



On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Justin Mitchell <
justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 11:17 +0000, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 10:31 +0000, Peter Barnes wrote:
> > > Nathan,
> > >
> > > I'm in favour with the alternate Wednesday "project night" idea.
> >
> > I am staking claim to 3rd wednesdays of the month for a regular
> > microcontrollers night, first will be in march. More details when i
> > figure out exactly what i'm going to do, but the concept so far is to
> > have a 'bring your projects to work on, plus a mini-tutorial'
>
> To clarify this:
>
> The flip-dot project would be a great one to work on at my proposed
> microcontrollers night
>
> We also need to reserve a regular evening for doing induction courses,
> hopefully we can come to an agreement on that soon
>
> A more regular night when we are officially open and there will be
> people there, but that otherwise has no fixed topic, is a great idea.
>
> there has also been suggestion for quite a while that we should try to
> do some more stuff at a weekend as some people just cant make it to
> monday or other week nights.
>
>
>
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