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

[Alex Duffield]

I may be along with my bow, the brass work arrives so I can work on the air
system of it, do we have a blowtorch or hot air gun capable of melting
solder? I want to solder seal my brass work to the piston and it's self as
efficiently as possible

On 20 Feb 2018 1:30 p.m., "Nathan Hackett" <nhackett1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Everyone is welcome to come along tomorrow (from 7 I guess?) to help with
> the reverse engineering effort on the flip dots. Or to work on and get help
> with your own projects. :)
> Some progress was made on Monday, we have a rudimentary pinout of the
> signals being sent to the panels. It does include two lines running at
> nearly 20v, but no negative lines thankfully.
> Justin has donated a USB to RS-485 board so hopefully we will have it
> displaying ascii by the end of the evening. :)
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Justin Mitchell <
> justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 13:35 +0000, Nathan Hackett wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> There is a small silver tin of PTFE Grease in the 3D printer spares box
>> (pink lid) used for lubricating the bearings and threads, try that
>>
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