Summary: Mitxela designed and built circuit board to drive old flip dot displays - boards donated to Sam from Look Mum No Computer and iterating on an approach from Mike at Mike's Electric Stuff. He ended up with 1m^2 of flip dots with an interactive high frame rate fluid simulation.
I can only express my deep respect and recognition for an amazing execution, craftsmanship and video while creating some thing fun and entertaining.
The dots are so delicate, with tiny magnet wires and soft plastic that can melt, that it has to be done very carefully. Even with the very best desoldering equipment it would take forever.
Put a hot air gun on the back of the board, and they'll either just drop out or do so with a small poke of the pins.
I can only express my deep respect and recognition for an amazing execution, craftsmanship and video while creating some thing fun and entertaining.
Put a hot air gun on the back of the board, and they'll either just drop out or do so with a small poke of the pins.