{"id":14666,"date":"2021-04-26T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14666"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T22:52:22","slug":"design-split-flap-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/26\/design-split-flap-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Design: Split-flap signs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve long loved the weird mechanical purring of those flappy-letter signs one sees (or at least used to see) in train stations &amp; similar venues, but I haven&#8217;t felt like throwing down the better part of three grand to own a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.vestaboard.com\/products\/vestaboard\">Vestaboard<\/a>. Now maker Scott Bezek is working on an <a href=\"https:\/\/scottbez1.github.io\/splitflap\/\">open-source project<\/a> for making such signs at home, combining simple materials and code. In case you&#8217;d never peeked inside such a mechanism (and really, why would you have?) and are curious, here&#8217;s how they work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How a Split-Flap Display Works\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UAQJJAQSg_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here, for some reason, are six oddly satisfying minutes of a sign spelling out four-letter words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Random four-letter words on a split-flap display (6 minutes)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vq4o_88kN8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long loved the weird mechanical purring of those flappy-letter signs one sees (or at least used to see) in train stations &amp; similar venues, but I haven&#8217;t felt like throwing down the better part of three grand to own a Vestaboard. Now maker Scott Bezek is working on an open-source project for making such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14673,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14666\/revisions\/14673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}