#splitflap — Public Fediverse posts

Ich glaub ja nicht dran. Aber ein Spaß wird es trotzdem. #ESC2026 #splitflap

@soaproot From Wikipedia: in central and eastern Europe, they were called Pragotrons, after the Czech company that made them. That's an awesome name.
I'll throw on a few hashtags in case there are fans of these things out in the Fediverse: #SplitFlap #SplitFlatDisplay #Pragotron

@soaproot From Wikipedia: in central and eastern Europe, they were called Pragotrons, after the Czech company that made them. That's an awesome name.
I'll throw on a few hashtags in case there are fans of these things out in the Fediverse: #SplitFlap #SplitFlatDisplay #Pragotron

@soaproot From Wikipedia: in central and eastern Europe, they were called Pragotrons, after the Czech company that made them. That's an awesome name.
I'll throw on a few hashtags in case there are fans of these things out in the Fediverse: #SplitFlap #SplitFlatDisplay #Pragotron

@soaproot From Wikipedia: in central and eastern Europe, they were called Pragotrons, after the Czech company that made them. That's an awesome name.
I'll throw on a few hashtags in case there are fans of these things out in the Fediverse: #SplitFlap #SplitFlatDisplay #Pragotron

@soaproot From Wikipedia: in central and eastern Europe, they were called Pragotrons, after the Czech company that made them. That's an awesome name.
I'll throw on a few hashtags in case there are fans of these things out in the Fediverse: #SplitFlap #SplitFlatDisplay #Pragotron

#OpenSource 💡 Mikaël Mourcia nous parle de son projet coup de cœur du moment

J'adore le bruit d'un #SplitFlap. Ce clac-clac-clac un peu hypnotique... Je n'avais jamais regardé comment ça fonctionnait à l'intérieur. Alors j'en ai construit un, basé sur le projet Open Source de Scott Bezek.

Niveau matériel, rien de fou :
👉 un ESP32
👉 quelques moteurs et capteurs
👉 un fer à souder
👉 beaucoup de patience

Et évidemment, trop tentant de ne pas le brancher à #Canopsis...

🔗 https://github.com/scottbez1

3D Print Yourself A Split Flap Display https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/3d-print-yourself-a-split-flap-display/ #split-flapdisplay #MiscHacks #splitflap #ESP32 #flap

Split-Flap Clock Makes a Nice Side Quest in Larger Project https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/split-flap-clock-makes-a-nice-side-quest-in-larger-project/ #clockhacks #halleffect #splitflap #stepper #NXPK22 #rtc

Split-Flap Clock Makes a Nice Side Quest in Larger Project https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/split-flap-clock-makes-a-nice-side-quest-in-larger-project/ #clockhacks #halleffect #splitflap #stepper #NXPK22 #rtc

Split-Flap Clock Makes a Nice Side Quest in Larger Project https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/split-flap-clock-makes-a-nice-side-quest-in-larger-project/ #clockhacks #halleffect #splitflap #stepper #NXPK22 #rtc

Split-Flap Clock Makes a Nice Side Quest in Larger Project https://hackaday.com/2025/02/07/split-flap-clock-makes-a-nice-side-quest-in-larger-project/ #clockhacks #halleffect #splitflap #stepper #NXPK22 #rtc

Split-Flap Clock Flutters Its Way to Displaying Time Without Numbers https://hackaday.com/2024/11/05/split-flap-clock-flutters-its-way-to-displaying-time-without-numbers/ #clockhacks #splitflap #clock #Art #art

Split-Flap Clock Flutters Its Way to Displaying Time Without Numbers - Here’s a design for a split-flap clock that doesn’t do it the usual way. Instead o... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/05/split-flap-clock-flutters-its-way-to-displaying-time-without-numbers/ #clockhacks #splitflap #clock #art

Before we moved, we hosted a reasonably frequent board game night (and as @Astarael and @SynAck can attest, we still find a way to host game nights out and about here and there).

Ever since I saw the shiny brand-new split-flap displays from places like Oat Foundry or Vestaboard, I've really wanted to buy one and set it up in the area we usually play board games in as a sort of player-score-tracker. Maybe tied to some little tabletop doodads for players to update the board.

Thing is, those boards are ridiculously expensive. AFAICT they're high-quality low-volume items that take a lot of human effort to make, so, fair enough, but it does mean I can't really justify spending cash on it.

However, by a considerably lucky twist of fate, I've come to own a very nice 3D printer recently at no cost to myself. And that's cool.

But then, TODAY! This found its way to my device: https://splitflap.home.blog/. An open-source project to make your own split-flap modules and displays!.

There may be a new project shortly in the works.

#BoardGames #SplitFlap #Projects #3DPrinting

If you came by the @c3nav table at #EH21 and saw our #SplitFlap display and we told you that we had made some modifications to the original Designs…

I just published the modifications i made.

Modified STLs for better alignment and, if desired, extendability: https://www.printables.com/de/model/847231-extension-parts-and-alignment-notch-mod-for-split

Improved drop-in replacement for the PCB:
https://github.com/codingcatgirl/split-flap-fae-pcb

Now all that's missing is for @scientress to publish her modification of the firmware :D

Suis-je le seul à apprécier les girouettes sur les MF 77 des lignes 7 et 8 parce qu’ils emploient des afficheurs à palettes (« split-flap displays » en anglais) ? Je n’en ai jamais vu ailleurs ; uniquement sur ce matériel.

Ici, à Place Monge, sur la ligne 7 du #métro de #Paris.

#RATP #trains #metro #SplitFlap #SplitFlapDisplay

I love Solari boards – the clickety-clackety electro-mechanical split-flap displays that were used as departure boards in railway stations before they were replaced by electronic versions ☺️

It would be fun to have an old one, but I suspect they’re extremely hard to come by – I’ve certainly never seen them popping up on eBay!

So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a US company, Oat Foundry, makes character-by-character split-flap displays to order (not quite the same, but still fun): https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/

Very cool, but how much are they? Well, let’s just say you can *rent* their smallest one (3 rows of 16 characters) for a *week* for as little as $7400 😱

That makes their competitor’s Vestaboard (6 rows of 22 characters) a complete steal at £3095 – to own outright no less (!): https://uk.vestaboard.com/products/vestaboard

The basic principle of split-flap displays is well explained in this three-and-a-half-minute video – you can see why they don’t come cheap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQJJAQSg_g

For people with the right equipment (3D printers, soldering kit etc.) and corresponding skills, there are lots of DIY instructions for making split-flap displays – way beyond my level sadly!

📷 Departure board at Edinburgh Waverley 1989, by Graeme Phillips, graeme9022 on Flickr

#Solari #SplitFlap #railways #DepartureBoards #displays #electromechanical

I love Solari boards – the clickety-clackety electro-mechanical split-flap displays that were used as departure boards in railway stations before they were replaced by electronic versions ☺️

It would be fun to have an old one, but I suspect they’re extremely hard to come by – I’ve certainly never seen them popping up on eBay!

So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a US company, Oat Foundry, makes character-by-character split-flap displays to order (not quite the same, but still fun): https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/

Very cool, but how much are they? Well, let’s just say you can *rent* their smallest one (3 rows of 16 characters) for a *week* for as little as $7400 😱

That makes their competitor’s Vestaboard (6 rows of 22 characters) a complete steal at £3095 – to own outright no less (!): https://uk.vestaboard.com/products/vestaboard

The basic principle of split-flap displays is well explained in this three-and-a-half-minute video – you can see why they don’t come cheap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQJJAQSg_g

For people with the right equipment (3D printers, soldering kit etc.) and corresponding skills, there are lots of DIY instructions for making split-flap displays – way beyond my level sadly!

📷 Departure board at Edinburgh Waverley 1989, by Graeme Phillips, graeme9022 on Flickr

#Solari #SplitFlap #railways #DepartureBoards #displays #electromechanical

I love Solari boards – the clickety-clackety electro-mechanical split-flap displays that were used as departure boards in railway stations before they were replaced by electronic versions ☺️

It would be fun to have an old one, but I suspect they’re extremely hard to come by – I’ve certainly never seen them popping up on eBay!

So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a US company, Oat Foundry, makes character-by-character split-flap displays to order (not quite the same, but still fun): https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/

Very cool, but how much are they? Well, let’s just say you can *rent* their smallest one (3 rows of 16 characters) for a *week* for as little as $7400 😱

That makes their competitor’s Vestaboard (6 rows of 22 characters) a complete steal at £3095 – to own outright no less (!): https://uk.vestaboard.com/products/vestaboard

The basic principle of split-flap displays is well explained in this three-and-a-half-minute video – you can see why they don’t come cheap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQJJAQSg_g

For people with the right equipment (3D printers, soldering kit etc.) and corresponding skills, there are lots of DIY instructions for making split-flap displays – way beyond my level sadly!

📷 Departure board at Edinburgh Waverley 1989, by Graeme Phillips, graeme9022 on Flickr

#Solari #SplitFlap #railways #DepartureBoards #displays #electromechanical

I love Solari boards – the clickety-clackety electro-mechanical split-flap displays that were used as departure boards in railway stations before they were replaced by electronic versions ☺️

It would be fun to have an old one, but I suspect they’re extremely hard to come by – I’ve certainly never seen them popping up on eBay!

So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a US company, Oat Foundry, makes character-by-character split-flap displays to order (not quite the same, but still fun): https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/

Very cool, but how much are they? Well, let’s just say you can *rent* their smallest one (3 rows of 16 characters) for a *week* for as little as $7400 😱

That makes their competitor’s Vestaboard (6 rows of 22 characters) a complete steal at £3095 – to own outright no less (!): https://uk.vestaboard.com/products/vestaboard

The basic principle of split-flap displays is well explained in this three-and-a-half-minute video – you can see why they don’t come cheap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQJJAQSg_g

For people with the right equipment (3D printers, soldering kit etc.) and corresponding skills, there are lots of DIY instructions for making split-flap displays – way beyond my level sadly!

📷 Departure board at Edinburgh Waverley 1989, by Graeme Phillips, graeme9022 on Flickr

#Solari #SplitFlap #railways #DepartureBoards #displays #electromechanical

I love Solari boards – the clickety-clackety electro-mechanical split-flap displays that were used as departure boards in railway stations before they were replaced by electronic versions ☺️

It would be fun to have an old one, but I suspect they’re extremely hard to come by – I’ve certainly never seen them popping up on eBay!

So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a US company, Oat Foundry, makes character-by-character split-flap displays to order (not quite the same, but still fun): https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/

Very cool, but how much are they? Well, let’s just say you can *rent* their smallest one (3 rows of 16 characters) for a *week* for as little as $7400 😱

That makes their competitor’s Vestaboard (6 rows of 22 characters) a complete steal at £3095 – to own outright no less (!): https://uk.vestaboard.com/products/vestaboard

The basic principle of split-flap displays is well explained in this three-and-a-half-minute video – you can see why they don’t come cheap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQJJAQSg_g

For people with the right equipment (3D printers, soldering kit etc.) and corresponding skills, there are lots of DIY instructions for making split-flap displays – way beyond my level sadly!

📷 Departure board at Edinburgh Waverley 1989, by Graeme Phillips, graeme9022 on Flickr

#Solari #SplitFlap #railways #DepartureBoards #displays #electromechanical

Classic 1960s Flip Clock Gets NTP Makeover - Many of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are entirely built from scratch, or... - https://hackaday.com/2023/03/26/classic-1960s-flip-clock-gets-ntp-makeover/ #microcontrollers #wemosd1mini #clockhacks #flipclock #splitflap #trinamic #ntp

Testing table with Sidi hot swapping modules.
#splitflap
#realtime
#omega

Split-flap throwback: “Sei lettere” (Six Letters) displays ALL six-letter words of the Italian dictionary sorted to produce the “least effort” (in split-flap motor action terms, similar to “Hamming distance” but distance is measured only in one direction).

#splitflap
#generative

What’s The Time? It’s Casino’clock! - As the saying goes, nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and th... - https://hackaday.com/2022/07/30/whats-the-time-its-casinoclock/ #split-flapdisplay #playingcards #steppermotor #clockhacks #splitflap #esp32

Split Flap Display Tells Us The Word - LED and LCD displays are a technological marvel. They’ve brought the price of tele... - https://hackaday.com/2022/03/02/split-flap-display-tells-us-the-word/ #arduinohacks #classichacks #characters #3dprinter #splitflap #arduino #display #modular #cnc

A Flip Clock That Flips Up, Not Down - The venerable flip clock has become an outsized part of timekeeping culture that b... - https://hackaday.com/2021/11/24/a-flip-clock-that-flips-up-not-down/ #genevadrive #clockhacks #flipclock #splitflap #stepper

This DIY Split-Flap Display Does Both Time and Weather - With little more than four economical stepper motors, a Raspberry Pi Zero, and a 3... - https://hackaday.com/2021/04/29/this-diy-split-flap-display-does-both-time-and-weather/ #split-flapdisplay #3dprinterhacks #raspberrypi #clockhacks #3dprinted #splitflap #weather #python #time

Tetris on Split-Flap Go Brrr - It hardly seems possible, but engineer collective and split-flap display purveyors [Oat Foundry] w... - https://hackaday.com/2021/03/07/tetris-on-split-flap-go-brrr/ #split-flapdisplay #splitflap #python #tetris #games

Tarot Machine Flips Through Fate’s Rolodex - Were tarot card readers deemed non-essential in your part of the world (and do you think they saw ... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/05/29/tarot-machine-flips-through-fates-rolodex/ #split-flapdisplay #microstepping #arduinohacks #steppermotor #arduinomega #splitflap #arduino #tarot

Airport Split-Flap Letters Carry On As Spotify Display - Today’s tale of being in the right place at the right time comes from [fabe1999], who was doing an... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/02/11/airport-split-flap-letters-carry-on-as-spotify-display/ #split-flapdisplay #greenhacks #mischacks #splitflap #esp8266 #spotify

Split Flap Clock Keeps Time Thanks to Custom Frequency Converter - Why would anyone put as much effort into resurrecting a 1970s split-flap clock as [mitxela] did wh... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/06/23/split-flap-clock-keeps-time-thanks-to-custom-frequency-converter/ #microcontrollers #phase-lockedloop #groundhogday #clockhacks #frequency #splitflap #attiny85 #h-bridge #inverter #clock #pll