{"id":5649,"date":"2021-08-28T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2021-08-31T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:35:54","slug":"split-flap-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5649","title":{"rendered":"Split-flap displays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of my fondest early foreign traveling memories were going to places in Europe and traveling from city to city where the train and airport arrivals\/departures boards used these amazing electro-mechanical split-flap display boards. The last place I saw one still in use was at Frankfurt airport in Germany a year or so before covid (and I believe it&#8217;s still there):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cj32w5z81Ak?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzxBfc2Axi-Why6UwpFDn4w\" target=\"_blank\">Scottbez1<\/a>&nbsp;walks us through how they work with a demonstration of his single-digit&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arduino<\/a>-controlled display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UAQJJAQSg_g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even better, all the parts, software, 3D print resources, and information you need to make your own can be found on his github page: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/scottbez1\/splitflap\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/scottbez1\/splitflap<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But be forewarned, his estimates run around $200 to make only 4 of these wonderful digits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, there are now companies around that will make these displays for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oatfoundry.com\/split-flap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.oatfoundry.com\/split-flap<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vestaboard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vestaboard.com\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But be ready to pay $2800 for even a basic model. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clivemaxfield.com\/roll-your-own-split-flap-displays\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.clivemaxfield.com\/roll-your-own-split-flap-displays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This guy does a decent job summarizing<\/a> the current offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my fondest early foreign traveling memories were going to places in Europe and traveling from city to city where the train and airport arrivals\/departures boards used these amazing electro-mechanical split-flap display boards. The last place I saw one still in use was at Frankfurt airport in Germany a year or so before covid (and I believe it&#8217;s still there): Scottbez1&nbsp;walks us through how they work with a demonstration of his single-digit&nbsp;Arduino-controlled display. Even better, all the parts, software,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5649\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1t7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}