Flipdot code

I’ve been playing with a 28x7 Flipdot display I got recently. The goal ultimately is to make a stand alone clock driven by a microprocessor, (Arduino or ESP32), and have it keep in sync over WiFi via NTP. As a proof of concept and a way in to understanding the display, Processing has been a perfect system and language. I’ve uploaded the code I’ve written so far to a github repo. Apart from code for a clock display, there are also some other little test routines, bouncing ball, a neat follow the mouse toy, and a very rough graphic equalizer that, frankly needs a lot more work. More technical information in the README.md.

I’ll try and upload some video of it working at some point.

More news on the micro-controller driven version as it happens. A shout out to iizukak for the initial idea, and also the guys at AlfaZeta for their help with this very cool mechanical device.