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ISO airport-train-station-style flip-card displays / alarm clocks from the 1970s/1980s

greywolfgreywolf Posts: 132
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Hello!  I am in search of a (way to make) flip-card-style displays, from clocks to station itinerary displays, from the 1970s/1980s; does anyone have a reference to such a thing?
(The ability to change what is displayed is important.)  I'd be grateful.

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,077

    Hmm.

    Can't remember if I've seen one. I can imagine a model where it goes from one letter/number to the next, however I'm not sure the whole alphabet could be accommodated, and the user would have to set the texture for the visible letter and the next character when it flips. For each character space there would be one fixed part (the drum) and one moving part (the sole flappy letter blade). Then this would be repeated repeatedly side to side & up/down to get the rows and columns needed, and put in a big box.

    Someone cleverer than I could possibly make a script to auto allocate the textures based on letters typed into a grid.

    Should be possible.Not necessarily possible for me.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,597

    I made an 8-segment LED with presets for the different numbers, but that's not quite what you're looking for.

  • deepred6502deepred6502 Posts: 388

    In my World Map Clock freebie, I did a mock-up of the flip-style display, rather than a truly mechanical one.

  • felisfelis Posts: 5,720

    Searching for it, there is something like this

    But I didn't anything related to trains/stations.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,857

    It is surpirsiingly difficult to find any references, but I remember them well - something like this, but much larger

  • greywolfgreywolf Posts: 132

    The "Split Flap" would be really REALLY cool [that looks like AI got its hands on that one -- that will be connected only to an isolated power outlet in the warehouse. :)   Doesn't have to be huge, and really, I guess, all I would need would be a single character, as I could then make as many as I wanted and group/array them.

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