Every disc flips

The cousin of split-flap: a grid of tiny discs, snapped back and forth by magnets. Now in preview.

Ways to make it move.

Live information, raw matrices, a small painting, and tactile controls, all from the same board.

001000101111101000101111100000000111000001000 001000101000001000100010000000001000100011000 001100101000000101000010000000001001100101000 001010101111000010000010000000001010101001000 001001101000000101000010000000001100101111100 001000101000001000100010000000001000100001000 001000101111101000100010000000000111000001000 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000001111001000000111001111100000001111100000 000001000101000001000100010000000000001000000 000001000101000001000100010000000000010000000 000001111001000001111100010000000000001000000 000001000001000001000100010000000000000100000 000001000001000001000100010000000001000100000 000001000001111101000100010000000000111000000

Messages that move

Make arrivals, announcements, and updates impossible to miss.

0000000000011100000100111000000000000 0000000000100010001100101000000000000 0000000000000010010100111000000000000 0000000000000100100100000000000000000 0000000000001000111110000000000000000 0000000000010000000100000000000000000 0000000000111110000100000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000011100100000111110011100111100000 0000100010100000100000100010100010000 0000100000100000100000100010100010000 0000100000100000111100111110111100000 0000100000100000100000100010101000000 0000100010100000100000100010100100000 0000011100111110111110100010100010000

Live values, made visible

Give changing numbers a tactile, readable presence.

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00001110010001000000001110001110011110000 00010001010001000000010001000100010001000 00010001011001000000010001000100010001000 00010001010101000000011111000100011110000 00010001010011000000010001000100010100000 00010001010001000000010001000100010010000 00001110010001000000010001001110010001000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Data as animation

Use raw pixels for meters, signals, and progress.

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000001000000000 00000000000000010000000000000111110000000 00000100000000000000000000000111110000100 00000000000000000000000000001111111000000 00000000000000000000001000000111110000000 00000000000000000000000000000111110000000 00000000001000000000000000000001000000000 00000000011100000000000000000000000000000 00000000111110000000000001000000000010000 00000001111111000000000001000000000111000 00000011111111100000000011100000001111100 00000111111111110000000111110000011111110 00001111111111111000001111111000111111111 00011111111111111100011111111100000010000 00111111111111111110111111111110000010000 01111111111111111111111111111111000010000 01111111111111111111111111111111111111110 00101010101010101010101010101010101010100 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000

A canvas made of discs

Paint a scene, then edit it one pixel at a time.

0011100011100000000001000011100 0100010100010001100011000100010 0100110100110001100001000100110 0101010101010000000001000101010 0110010110010001100001000110010 0100010100010001100001000100010 0011100011100000000011100011100

Make time visible

Give launches, departures, and deadlines a clear finish line.