Hello, I’d love to hear about your journey. I guess working in tech the way I was was very tangible, but it was just the overwhelming amount of time spent not building it that eventually got to me.

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@@blstcblender190 nope. You wish though. I was an electrical engineer for a transit bus manufacturer with REV Group. No affiliation with Hanover other than we installed their signs into their busses.

they’re all functional, some are just slower to flip and i did set the pulse duration aggressively low to get more speed.

Ikr, for 10 seconds I was like "is this game of life?"

It feels like the solid material would react itself, like chemicals or so.

Our version of the game didn't have sound, but I imagined it would sound kinda like this.

I agree: this is probably the most beautiful implementation of Conway's I've ever seen, thanks to the flipdot display. Makes me want one even more.

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@@HerbaMachina I did a little bit of a mistake there... Imagine the headache from two extra dimensions one extra is already enough Youre right thanks 😚

These modules are available in various sizes new from here: flipdots.com/en/home/

There is also a guy that makes his own kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8eahLNiq6e2g2g.html

mine are salvaged from Hong Kong buses. 32*32 Hanover dot boards were only ever used in Hong Kong as the higher density is required to display complex traditional Chinese characters. shipping is prohibitively expensive but rates between Hong Kong to me in Singapore weren’t too bad as we’re geographically close and have cheap express shipping options. I’ve also checked some into flights when I was commuting frequently between Hong Kong and Singapore for work. The dots themselves are made by Alfa-Zeta but the specific octagonal dots Hanover used are no longer in production, though Alfa-Zeta does have some NOS they’ll sell you if you email them. Alfa-Zeta also has newer designs and modules and you’ll see them at the website linked in the comments above.

only actual dot flips take a significant amount of time, so speed really only depends on how many dots need to be flipped. but also, they have to be flipped in sequence, so more dot boards could mean more dot flips, and then it’ll take more time.