Bud Nail recently got in touch to tell us about his environmentally friendly digital display project in LiveCode, a fascinating project that Bud is trying to raise funds for on KickStarter. He has kindly agreed to do a guest blog post to tell us all about the project…
First, just a little bit of background on FlipBit. You can go deeper by visiting our KickStarter page. Recently, I was looking for a project that would keep my intern, Alex, interested as he learns to use design and fabrication tools. I had been mentally designing what might be called a mechanical pixel for many years. Typically, it would come to mind when on a long boring drive with nothing much to look at but trees and roadside signs. I had mentally tested and rejected many approaches for cost and complexity reasons, but at some point I finally focused in on what I thought was probably an optimum design. Alex became my inspiration to finally get the design out of the gray matter and into something tangible.
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