aiiotnoodle today at 10:52 AM

He mentions in the video and in the article Breakfast Studio and I happened to watch a video of one of their panels on an unrelated YouTube channel. I've skipped ahead to when the video has the panel. (there is also a cool egg just before that point in the video) it's only about 5 seconds.

https://youtu.be/2fRx64OTAeI?si=FJDW3OGYLRK0rYox&t=681

It's really cool to see some innovation in flip-dots and their colours, seems really quiet too. Shame these things cost an arm and leg and are massive, something like this in your house would look great at like 1/5th scale.

userbinator today at 6:52 AM

The dots are so delicate, with tiny magnet wires and soft plastic that can melt, that it has to be done very carefully. Even with the very best desoldering equipment it would take forever.

Put a hot air gun on the back of the board, and they'll either just drop out or do so with a small poke of the pins.

steventhedev today at 11:55 AM

I'm always amazed by the precision work this guy does. My only nit with this article was he didn't link the Eurovision entry:

https://youtu.be/I0tqgGVQkew

bobek today at 7:02 AM

I have recently resurrected one from an old bus — https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

amelius today at 7:45 AM

Instead of using capacitors ... why not use a negative supply rail? Then you can switch the direction of the current in a coil using only two transistors.

hankbond today at 4:20 PM

This was awesome! I was looking forward to a satisfying video of the panel in action tho... Did I miss it somewhere?

classified today at 8:28 PM

Holy cow. I can't help imagining game of life on these mechanical pixels.

sinabis today at 8:34 AM

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