FLIP DOT ETCH A SKETCH

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Жыл бұрын

MAKING A FLIP DOT ETCH A SKETS FOR ‪@KidsInventStuff‬ and a lovely Present from ‪@ThisOldTony‬ ! #YTMakersSecretSanta
if you'd like to see more videos on this project, samples and much more
check here :- / lookmumnocomputer
or you can use the super thanks button below the video!
it also helps ‪@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE‬ massively. :)
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SECRET SANTA PLAYLIST :-
• YT Makers Secret Santa...
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OUTRO SONG :-
• HÄNDEL - Sarabande - a...
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List of Gear/Electronics I USE :-
www.lookmumnocomputer.com/stu...
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kids invent stuff reaction to etch a sketch :-
• This isn't your Averag...
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Come To THIS MUSEUM IS (NOT) OBSOLETE! :-
this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/
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THANKUS HUMUNGOUSO to :-
DeltaByte
Steve Jones
Paul F
Cameron Luteraan
Ande Spenser
Arnix T-Bone
Vaz Daqui
Eric Painter
Jason Kuehl
Aaron Ritter
David Boudreau
Roland G. McIntosh
casey
CoFFeeTaBLesE
David Dolphin
Matt Followell (PDP-7)
Miles Flavel
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@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

Shoutout to YG for getting us in touch with Andrew! and Cheers Andrew! keep an eye out on the flip dot project early next year :) Checkout the playlist of this years #YTMakersSecretSanta! for all of the vids. im working on a bit of documentation on this as we speak so keep a lookout, as it has all been very last minute this build hahaha

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

the plan is to make a screen next year out of them all so it can be multipurpose. roughly the same resolution as a gameboy per window

@___aZa___ Жыл бұрын

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER thats awesome! If you can, rip some Pokemon Intros or something and play them on there! I think that would be hella cool!

@leyasep5919 Жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see the rest of your experiments with flip dots ! I also want to make games with this type of display ;-) But your window display is going to be epiiiic...

@OriginalMorningStar Жыл бұрын

Hey guys... Any friend of YG is a friend of mine. Flipping awesome project 😄

@leyasep5919 Жыл бұрын

@@OriginalMorningStar Oh, a fellow flipdotter ! Hi J !

@ThisOldTony Жыл бұрын

you're a freak'n genius, what a great project idea!

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the screwdrivers Tony. Really thoughtful gift and my dad is extremely envious. He is coming over just to look at them haha. Thanks again

@ThisOldTony Жыл бұрын

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I'm glad I sent 2!

@MrThisuldo Жыл бұрын

@@ThisOldTony Sam bought the screwdrivers home and they are absolutely wonderful. Very tactile. I was trying to persuade him to give them to me, now I’ve read this I assume 1 is for me 😂. His mum also wants a set of steak knives. Keep up the great work!

@spookyfm4879 Жыл бұрын

@@MrThisuldo Good on ya, Sam's dad! Oh, and thank you for letting him use your garage to build a flamethrower organ that one time! Wait, what do you mean he's never told you he built a flamethrower organ in your garage?

@MrThisuldo Жыл бұрын

@@spookyfm4879 the true of it is he waited for us to go on holiday then sent us videos of him almost setting light to the house. Neighbours loved it though! 😂😂

@prgnify Жыл бұрын

ToT: "these strippers are much worse than a dedicated one, much more like a pocket knife version, but should work well in a pinch" LMNC: "WOW these are so much better than my teeth!!"

@Ewr42 Жыл бұрын

LMNK*

@DeanCovert Жыл бұрын

ey that's pronunciated "teefs"

@mattwerner523 Жыл бұрын

As a 40 year EE, I've stripped wire with my teeth quite a bit.

@WooMaster777 Жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@khashmeshab Жыл бұрын

@@mattwerner523 I stripped wires with my teeth since I was 9. From then, my teeth are shaped like a wire stripper, with a special spot for wire with different diameters, so I can easily strip wires with almost no effort.

@Dymitr_Nawrocki Жыл бұрын

As a member of ToT subscriber expedition i assure you that when it comes to wire strippers, you are wrong handed, they were totally meant to be on this side, no doubt in that, there were no mistakes hidden by grinding that surface on that side.

@Phroggster Жыл бұрын

Nope, no mistakes have ever occurred in a ToT video. He's kompletely flawless in every way.

@Pouncer9000 Жыл бұрын

@@Phroggster To even suggest it is inkonsiderate and frankly a little offending.

@CHGOfficial512 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely none indeed. Also those are high quality

@nielsolerum9018 Жыл бұрын

Beats using your teeth! 😆

@Argosh Жыл бұрын

@@Pouncer9000 I kan see what you did there.

@IzzyIkigai Жыл бұрын

Toni: "The wirestrippers aren't that great" LMNC: "Way better than my teeth do it" This make me chuckle. :D

@katherinecaldwell3753 Жыл бұрын

Omg right. Its so hard to get out of the habit of using teeth for wires 😅

@gamemeister27 Жыл бұрын

@@katherinecaldwell3753 they work so well!

@KidsInventStuff Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sam! We love the flip dot etch-a-sketch, lots of fun! Happy Christmas & we can't wait to see your giant flip dot wall! -Ruth & Shawn

@commodoresixfour7478 Жыл бұрын

I just subscribed to you guys. I'm surprised I've never heard about your channel.

@KidsInventStuff Жыл бұрын

@@commodoresixfour7478 Well it's great to have you here! - Ruth

@WooMaster777 Жыл бұрын

🥰🥰🥰🥰

@FlameRat_YehLon Жыл бұрын

Kinda wonder if it's possible to implement a USB mouse driver on the Arduino so that you can make the world's worst MS Paint.

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

well it will be with the museum window screens as they will be screens in essence.

@gqinc1202 Жыл бұрын

best*

@AnalogDude_ Жыл бұрын

no, it's a host/slave system, USB. you also need a new USB jack. but you can make a mouse, keyboard, midi controller and so with a Arduino and control your computer. You could use I²C or SPI to make 2 Arduino communicate with other, but also that is master/slave system, UART gives some options.

@---l--- Жыл бұрын

I want to play flip board snake at the museum so badly

@stevenverhaegen8729 Жыл бұрын

Belgian busses! 😁👍

@bigclivedotcom Жыл бұрын

That would make an interesting daylight supercomputer panel. Possibly just randomly selecting a row and column and toggling it based on its existing state stored as a single memory bit in RAM?

@leyasep5919 Жыл бұрын

I bougth my first flip dot pannels because I wanted a graphic output for my electromechanical/transistorless computer 😀 Though at about 25 instructions per second, it wouldn't qualify as "supercomputer" at all.

@squirlboy250 Жыл бұрын

When are you going to enter in the secret Santa?

@bigclivedotcom Жыл бұрын

@@squirlboy250 Maybe I should just do it with another E-youtuber.

@PosyMusic Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind staring at (and listening to) this flipdot in a dentist waiting room... So cooooooooo😎

@leyasep5919 Жыл бұрын

That's the purpose of my project : GropXL ("big pixel" in English), plus you'd be able to control it with your smartphone !

@thematthewlondon Жыл бұрын

wow the museum is gorgeous, what a great building

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

It's a snazzy one! Lions on top too I painted em gold

@d00dEEE Жыл бұрын

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Until today, I had not realized the museum was protected by lions. Pure class, that! And now in gold.

@dykodesigns Жыл бұрын

Those flipdots are pretty cool. At first I thought those screwdrivers where chisels for carving wood, maybe it’s because of style of packaging and the wooden handles.

@someoneelse7629 Жыл бұрын

That's a perfect display for a game of "Snake" Also, I love the sound and the anologe feel of it.

@spaceshipable Жыл бұрын

"That's well better that my teeth do it" 😂

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

yeah finally can retire the gnashers

@wpgne Жыл бұрын

Cool, Sam. These displays were popular in the 1970's and 80's on game shows, like the U.S. Family Feud or Family Fortunes in the UK. It's nice to see you can still get them for projects. I prefer the "eggcrate" displays used on the U.S. Price Is Right - some of which are still in use, even today, after decades.

@laurencebois5119 Жыл бұрын

You should combine your telephone exchange and have a dial-in game of snake controlled by touch tone

@cyberpholk Жыл бұрын

Mount it on the windows facing outside so people waiting to get in can play 😀

@leyasep5919 Жыл бұрын

That's more or less what I suggested initially 😀

@st3althyone Жыл бұрын

Out of all the secret Santa’s, yours and TOT’s presents were the best. You guys did a fantastic job thinking these through to make them personal.

@bs7747 Жыл бұрын

Xyla's had a lot of thought put into it as well! Those are all definitely my favorites this year (plus I also fell in *LOVE* with the leather tool/purse Jimmy -wasted on- made for that Becky gal!)🤣❤️

@carrioncrow8191 Жыл бұрын

This old Tony gave a really thoughtful gift 💝

@GreenShortzDIY Жыл бұрын

First Xyla, then Jimmy, then Becky, then Tony and now, LMNK ⚙--> LMNC. Merry Christmas 🎄

@auntysamirajazzfunkremixes9967 Жыл бұрын

Nachts im Museum.... Who Is Afraid Of Ghosts @ Night in the museum? Verry Cool Flippy Display!

@delta250a Жыл бұрын

That is absolutely gorgeous and seriously needs to be made into a giant snake game.

@sambeard4428 Жыл бұрын

My first thought

@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr Жыл бұрын

Part of the masterfulness of this work, are those little details, of prep / organization- ie - tape to hold down the wires so they stay still while you work on 'em, or work on the logic on them. Gosh in is the details, Maestro.

@daleerickson554 Жыл бұрын

I came here from "This Old Tony". I did know of your channel, again thanks to Tony but, as I already have so many channels I try to keep up with, I decided that I didn't need another but, upon coming back for the secret Santa builds, I find you working on a pipe organ! I spent 15 years as a pipe organ builder and loved every minute of it (right up to the time my knees wouldn't let me crawl around under the chests. Needless to say, I'm subscribing. Looking forward to more organ and, to be honest, I've never watched one of your videos that didn't entertain and educate me, so am looking forward to all your content.

@illnessofjeez Жыл бұрын

What a flipping cool invention. Flippin flipper would be flipped proud ? Flip yeh !

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

Pun central hahaha love it

@SP4CEBAR Жыл бұрын

I've never heard someone this satisfied with the feel of a screwdriver

@Javierm0n0 Жыл бұрын

when u use a screwdriver that fits the heads perfectly you'll know xD

@MonkeyJedi99 Жыл бұрын

He got a little TOO excited for some audiences...

@Android811 Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7ynlpd1v8jHn3k.html I bought these screwdrivers after watching this. I gotta say, I was just as satisfied!

@SP4CEBAR Жыл бұрын

@@Android811 nice

@dfunited1 Жыл бұрын

When Rick shows Morty true level

@FreejackVesa Жыл бұрын

I honestly had no idea how amazingly engineered "flip dots" were. Seriously, that is some really optimized mechanical tech. Pretty cool!

@jk9554 Жыл бұрын

Colin's Bass Jacket is what introduced me to this channel 👍

@d00dEEE Жыл бұрын

Both you and Tony absolutely nailed it!

@barnabydixon Жыл бұрын

This is amazing Sam!

@StevenIngram Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love the flip dots. LOL Ultra low res 2-bit graphics. :D And since it retains the state when powered off - it's shares some kinship with e-ink. :)

@Lu_Woods Жыл бұрын

Flippin 'eck ! So many cool things to do with 'em. ..and the sounds !! yumm.

@RDJim Жыл бұрын

You got the best gift of all of them. The only thing I'd even want.

@B0tch0 Жыл бұрын

Wow, I'm floored. This just made me understand so much more of the electronics nowadays.

@gazs7237 Жыл бұрын

Omg, getting this to play "the game of life" would be awesome. Not the board game, the one done by some scientist in like the 50s or 60s

@hullinstruments Жыл бұрын

You and Tim hunkin need to hang out. He's like a force of nature. And it's hard to imagine the modern maker community without his influence over the past decades. he's the only other person I can think of who has something of a diy "museum". But in his case it's an arcade made up of some of the most ridiculous and crazy awesome machines you've ever seen. (That he built by hand.)

@cyberhikerdd Жыл бұрын

Nice little Easter egg @ 12:27. I won't spoil it for everyone else with the details. Made me smile.

@althejazzman Жыл бұрын

It's incredible seeing how many tools and equipment you own, that you lack basic essentials like good screwdrivers! That was a very appropriate gift.

@OmnieStar Жыл бұрын

I could listen to that sound forever.

@ColaBeGaming Жыл бұрын

Haha, all the numbers on the song display for the organ = A funny number - 1! I love it!

@brettosowiecki8759 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video once again, Great build!

@Alvastar Жыл бұрын

Gotta make the original snake game on those flipdots for the front of the museum!

@bentsprockettech Жыл бұрын

I became fascinated with flip dot display when I would go to work with my dad. He was a bus driver in New York and these flip dot displays were part of public transportation everywhere. Thank you so much for taking the time to show how these. 🙂

@mrmaniac3 Жыл бұрын

The organ looks beautiful! The one I worked on has been complete for a while I think, I haven't been back there in some years to see. The flat screws were fun to work with to say the least 🙃

@JonPrevost Жыл бұрын

Damn! You have a good flip-dot supply man. I've been drooling for a good set. So much cooler than e-ink. Mechanical engineers feel like these displays communicate how much more "environmentally friendly" we are than other engineering disciplines. We don't JUST burn rocket fuel.

@drumnotdrum9262 Жыл бұрын

Your brain, this flip dot screen and some synth cv interface...... I can’t wait!

@sgsax Жыл бұрын

Maker Secret Santa time! Truly, the most wonderful time of the year. This project was flipping great! And your reaction to the screwdrivers was priceless. Thanks for sharing!

@Wolfram53 Жыл бұрын

🚂🎄 Excellent, Excellent, Excellent ! A trip to the UK and the Museum is being planned for the springtime ! Thank you for an excellent video ! Merry Christmas ! 🎄

@potteryjoe Жыл бұрын

love the sound of these! great buld

@KaosArbitrium Жыл бұрын

4:00 I did not expect a christmas video rambling on Flip Dot Displays to finally explain how negative voltage works.

@learningtodrawstudios4773 Жыл бұрын

This is pretty dang cool.

@Narutokun1545 Жыл бұрын

It's actually quite satisfying to watch them.

@mikoro88 Жыл бұрын

You made a really nice gift! And I'm quite jealous of the screwdrivers TOT made you. Lucky bastard!

@theycallme_nightmaster Жыл бұрын

this is the coolest one in the series, love your stuff

@jessemessy3864 Жыл бұрын

The flip dot demo with the 3 wires reminded me of a speaker working. By reversing polarity to move the cone in a out.

@ChristianBehnke Жыл бұрын

Love the sound of the entire board switching! 🤓

@GadgetUK164 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Never knew about those flip dots!!! Very creative - awesome present to gift them!

@Zanthorr Жыл бұрын

Started with TOT, had no idea it was apart of something larger! Over an hour later and I'm here. I hope next year you bring on more creators to extend this chain!

@maxpayne3779 Жыл бұрын

Once I saw you playing around with the flip-dots I instantly thought of programming the game "snake" on the Arduino. Then you just need to connect push buttons and arrange them in a cross for up-down and left-right. Maybe an idea for another project with the flip-dots.

@leyasep5919 Жыл бұрын

Snake, Tetris AND Breakout !

@TheDistur Жыл бұрын

That is so cool. Looking forward to seeing the larger scale version.

@jannepeltonen2036 Жыл бұрын

This looked like a really fun build, and showed some strength of character to actually send it after completing it and it turning out so nice :D

@jima1135 Жыл бұрын

Idk why, but there is something deeply satisfying about watching those dots flip like a wave.

@JordanRobots Жыл бұрын

Magnificent flip-a-sketch, well done! I also love how excited you are about those screwdrivers. Good tools are such a satisfying experience!

@kwaaaa Жыл бұрын

Seriously such a cool project

@tohafi Жыл бұрын

Hypnotic!

@azertyytreza8947 Жыл бұрын

4:40 oooh that’s awesome!! That’s a flipdot bus display from the Belgian public transport company (De Lijn), I worked on a project for them to connect these displays to the backbone system. 👍🏻😄

@leyasep5919 Жыл бұрын

more details please !!!

@coconutfleetsleeper5717 Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! It's like an etch a sketch

@phqutub Жыл бұрын

Great vid! Introduce a awesome new product and easy to understand in depth explanation.

@duicenasty1078 Жыл бұрын

Two of my fave KZfaqrs

@TheZepone Жыл бұрын

Awesome 😊

@Preske Жыл бұрын

Imagine my surprise to see my hometown featured! :D I always wondered how these worked. This is an awesome gift.

@AllDayBikes Жыл бұрын

best gift out of the series

@conorstewart2214 Жыл бұрын

For the flip dot displays for the front of the museum if you are having trouble with the speed and number of IO required it may be worth looking into FPGAs, rather than running software they configure their internal components to create custom hardware. A major advantage is they are essentially just digital circuits so everything happens concurrently, you can have every IO pin doing its own thing with its own timing at very high speeds usually. They also tend to have a large number of IO pins.

@curtishoffmann6956 Жыл бұрын

Happy Christmas, Sam and Flippy!

@d.t.4523 Жыл бұрын

Great tools! Good luck!

@ptrively Жыл бұрын

The makers secret santa is one of my favorite things every year, thanks LMNC! :)

@michaelbauers8800 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@MaxskiSynths Жыл бұрын

Beautiful gift!

@MrBlakBunny Жыл бұрын

my favourite time of year, i love watching these!

@thomashverring9484 6 ай бұрын

I love it!

@leebatt7964 Жыл бұрын

Hollow ground for use on hallowed ground. Nice!

@baronvonkrogglesteiniii5310 Жыл бұрын

This prompted such wonderful nostalgia for one of my favorite uni projects. I turned an FPGA and an old VGA monitor into the 16-color aliexpress knockoff version of Mario Paint. With switches to control the cursor just like you used. Was it a productive use of resources? Hell no. Was it fun? Hell yes.

@colinfurze Жыл бұрын

What sexaul screwdriver sounds.......check Flip dots look amazing

@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Жыл бұрын

Those Groans were not put on I'll have you know

@jordanlarson6488 Жыл бұрын

This is awesome

@mrpepin Жыл бұрын

As a Belgian from Brussels, i find it very funny to see that the bus you took as an example runs only a few hundred meters from my house. 😅

@-MrDontCare- Жыл бұрын

Awesome.

@demofilm Жыл бұрын

what an awesome idea. thanks for the video,

@quaxie Жыл бұрын

What a great sound. I need one!

@roadiesgarage3816 Жыл бұрын

I always wondered how these signs worked. Thanks buddy 👍

@Colin_Ames Жыл бұрын

Great use of a flip dot panel. I bet there’s a whole bunch of kids, and a few adults, out there that would love one of these. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

@anthonyfn Жыл бұрын

Can't believe it's already been two years since I found you from this Christmas gift exchange. Very cool etch-a-sketch and Merry Christmas Sam!!!

@ruairi_d Жыл бұрын

This is cool! I think Family Fortunes used to use these for the board during the Monkhouse/Bygraves/Dennis era.

@DrTrilogy Жыл бұрын

This is straight up amazing. I could spend a lot of hours with one of those

@FUKTxProductions Жыл бұрын

hindsight is always 20/20

@ataquemental Жыл бұрын

That was cool! That screen would be perfect for a super slow snake game!

@LKLM138 Жыл бұрын

M8 I felt that screw come a loose with that nice driver (11:08). damn I'm jealous!

@drewdemien481 Жыл бұрын

You get the coolest analog shit. I love flip.mechanisms from the early 70s.

@j.thorgard Жыл бұрын

Wow nice work.

@user-pf9xe6kk7p Жыл бұрын

Woah! This screen would be perfect for snake game! Just imagine: huuuuge snake field in museum’s window

@Lesardah Жыл бұрын

I became a subscriber of yours because of the gift exchange with This Old Tony. I've been enthralled by your creations ever since (especially the museum counter). It's been a great year :)