Collaborate Disseminate
Flip digit clocks are a prized piece of consumer electrical ephemera, providing as they do a digital display without significant electronics. Making your own flip digit display involves some drudgery …read more Continue reading A Flip Digit Clock, Binary Style
Dice are about the simplest machines possible, and they’ve been used since before recorded history to generate random numbers. But no machine is so simple that a little needless complexity …read more Continue reading Spinning Magnets Do Your Dice Rolling for You
Here at Hackaday, we feature all kinds of projects, and we love them all the same. But some projects are a little easier to love than others, especially those that …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Improves Passive Pixel Water Gauge
[Mike Harrison] has an upcoming project which will combine a large number of flip-dot displays salvaged from buses. [Mike] thought he knew how these things worked, and had a prototype …read more Continue reading A Close Look at How Flip-Dot Displays Really Work
Mechanical multi-segment displays have become quite a thing lately, and we couldn’t be more pleased about it. The degree of mechanical ingenuity needed to make these things not only work …read more Continue reading I’ll See Your Seven-Segment Mechanical Display and Raise You to 16 Segments
Oscilloscope displays have come a long way since the round phosphor-coated CRTs that adorned laboratories of old. Most modern scopes ship with huge, high-definition touch screens that, while beautiful, certainly …read more Continue reading Flip-Dot Oscilloscope is Flippin’ Awesome
Soil sensors are handy things, but while sensing moisture is what they do, how they handle that data is what makes them useful. Ensuring usefulness is what led [Maakbaas] to …read more Continue reading Soil Sensor Shows Flip-Dots Aren’t Just for Signs
Swiss artist and designer [Jürg Lehni] was commissioned to create an artwork called Four Transitions which has been installed in the HeK (House of electronics Arts) in Basel. This piece visually …read more Continue reading Artwork Spans Fifty Years of Display Technology
Most people find two problems when it comes to flip-dot displays: where to buy them and how to drive them. If you’re [Pierre Muth] you level up and add the challenge of driving them fast enough to rival non-mechanical displays …read more
Continue reading 30 FPS Flip-Dot Display Uses Cool Capacitor Trick
Like many of us, [John Whittington] was saddened with the news that John Horton Conway passed away a little earlier this year, and in honor of his work, he added the Game of Life to a flip-dot display that he has been working on. The physicality of an electromechanical display …read more
Continue reading Watch Conway’s Game of Life Flutter Across a Flip-Dot Display