Really Amazing Flip Dot Display

[5-ht]

See:
http://breakfastny.com/2012/06/reactive-super-speed-electromagnet-dot-display-per/#content

It's a 23' by 12' display that's real time interactive.
I hope to see this in person next week.
Mark

[coggs]

So beautiful. I will admit to collecting a few flip-dots. Driving strategies are not dissimilar to nixes. Hard to come by. Must watch municipal auctions when they retire bus fleets. Either the buses go intact to 3rd world countries or many going into shredders with the bus.

Came by this site. He is something of a bus-sign flip-dot curator

http://www.rollsigngallery.com/transitstore-esigns.html

..c
www.cogwheelcircuitworks.com

[NeonJohn]

On 07/19/2012 09:14 PM, coggs wrote:
> So beautiful. I will admit to collecting a few flip-dots. Driving
> strategies are not dissimilar to nixes. Hard to come by. Must watch
> municipal auctions when they retire bus fleets. Either the buses go intact
> to 3rd world countries or many going into shredders with the bus.

Ah, another closet flip-dot collector. I have a speed radar "MPH" sign
that works with my speed gun and quite a few bus signs. I managed to
get in there when AVS, the electric bus company in Chattanooga, TN went
bankrupt and got a few. Someone had removed all the driver boxes though.

I see a clock in the future, though only an HH:MM one. I could imagine
bouncing off the walls, stark raving mad after listening to those things
flip once a second for a few days :-)

I almost got a freeway overhead one. Alas, the junk dealer said take
the whole sign (requiring a flatbed truck and cherry picker) or nothing.
He wouldn't let me strip out the display boards. *sob*

>
> Came by this site. He is something of a bus-sign flip-dot curator
>
> http://www.rollsigngallery.com/transitstore-esigns.html

That has to be the ugliest website I've ever seen. Either that or the
new Firefox they just pushed out is really hosed.

John


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[Quixotic Nixotic]

On 20 Jul 2012, at 04:52, NeonJohn wrote:

> I managed to
> get in there when AVS, the electric bus company in Chattanooga, TN went
> bankrupt and got a few.

Pardon me boys,

I thought people went by choo-choo in Chattanooga? They had buses too? I feel a song coming on.

John S

[H. Carl Ott]

I went by that street corner the other night (32nd & 6th) to check out
the display.
It's pretty neat. But it was too noisy around Herald square to
really hear the dots flipping. IMO, that sound is half the appeal of
these displays.

After a minute or so of watching it, all I wanted to do was to
reprogram it to run a Conway's life game simulator.


-carl

[Tobias]

Yesterday I went there to check it out! It is neat indeed.
I could not hear it even when the street was calm.

Now I need to see one without double glass in front of it =)

Tobias


On Jul 21, 8:08 am, "H. Carl Ott" <hcarl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:41 AM, 5-ht <serv...@mds-hou.com> wrote:
> > See:
> >http://breakfastny.com/2012/06/reactive-super-speed-electromagnet-dot...