flip dot screens are remarkable — as well poor it’s so difficult to discover big panels to play around with, however that’s for one more article. [Pierre Muth] has been working to discover different as well as fascinating things to finish with these flip dots, as well as he just recently explored exactly how you can flip them extremely very gently.
Now you likely keep in mind [Pierre’s] work from earlier this year where he was pushing the speed of the screens as high as possible. utilizing a capacitor discharge technique he made it to 30 fps, which absolutely spectacular work. this time around around he attempted to do something similarly outstanding by micro-stepping the dots. It’s a bonkers concept as well as sadly didn’t work. It seems the dots are engineered for two stable specifies as well as you just can’t get extremely great performance with the in-between states.
However, along the method he had an a-ha moment. part of what he wished to finish with the microstepping was to sluggish down the modification of the specify as well as for that, he just grabbed a viscous fluid that’s thicker than air: Vaseline oil. (We’d envision it’s not the cocoa-scented variety, however who knows?) He’s taken a page out of the mineral-oil-cooled PC sub-genre as well as used it to flipdots. however view the video after the break as well as you’ll see that the slower animations are very pleasing to watch, as well as the clickity-clackity that was driving you nuts while trying to works is now whisper quiet. It’s a new dawn for displays.