It’s pretty hard to deny that split-flap displays are incredibly awesome. This one has been a long time coming, and it’s not a refab or surplus build. [Tom] fabricated these beautiful alpha-numeric ...

The Oat Foundry Split Flap Display in Motion. A Throwback to the Golden Age of Train Travel Adds to the Allure of Utopia of the Seas. The Split Flap's mechanical design, with motion and sound, brings ...

According to the project’s GitHub repository, it looks as though each split-flap has thirteen unique positions. The first ten are for numerals 0 through 9, and the rest are either blank, or used to ...

This modern incarnation of a vintage display technology is making its mark in myriad locations, including retro art installations. All I can say is that my chum Rick Curl has a lot to answer for, ...

One solution to the challenge of standing out in a sea of LED video walls and digital signage is to go completely in the other direction – analog. The problem, of course, is that updating old-school, ...

The iconic split-flap board at 30th Street Station was removed this past weekend, but with any luck a new (and similarly noisy) board will take its place. While the novelty of the original, vintage ...

Recently, I've become enamored with split flap display and have been ideating on a project to create a modular unit that you string together and it displays strings. This is the primary physical ...

Arduino enthusiasts and makers in search of a new project to keep them busy, might be interested in this awesome split flap display that has been created by Instructables member JON-A-TRON. Together ...

Passengers and history buffs worried about the fate of the iconic split-flap schedule board at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station got a new reason to hope Monday. According to U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, ...

Split-flap mechanical signs are sadly a relic of a bygone era. The famous, clacking boards were once used in train stations all over the world, but advances in technology have retired most of them in ...