Simple-Hydroponics-Arduino VS splitflap

The next version of our free Hydroponics + Solar Tracking controller software, v0.6.5, just got released, & is available here: https://github.com/NachtRaveVL/Simple-Hydroponics-Arduino/releases/tag/v0.6.5 and https://github.com/NachtRaveVL/Simple-SolarTracker-Arduino/releases/tag/v0.6.5 -- I've spent the last 8, going on 9 months working on this in lieu of finding "real work", simply because I think that such an important piece of technology should be accessible to everyone. So instead of having money for rent (which is quickly coming to an end and I'm going to have to start looking for work starting next month), I've been putting myself into debt so that I can bring you all a professional-grade controller, for the cost of absolutely nothing.

You might want to check out Scottbez's open source split flap display project (https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap). I've also been interested in replicating/streamlining this someday since I don't like the idea of manually applying vinyl lettering to all the PVC cards.

There is a wonderful resource for a DIY option here: https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap

https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap Found this long time ago, but is too complex for me

For what it's worth, I've been keeping an I on https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap for some displays. At some point they have a easy version.

I was looking at these the other day - in the process of browsing around the subject I found this maker-project to create custom ones:

https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap

This is based off the splitflap project, which includes ordering and assembly guides.

Scott Bezek has a great video on "How a Split Flap Display Works" [0].

He also sells blank "flaps" on Tindie [1].

The documentation on how to build the Split Flap is also really awesome [2], including how to cut your own flaps [3].

I've been following this project for a while. It's pretty awesome. I estimate about $10 per character (as opposed to the $180/character (!!) another poster mentioned through Alibaba), with a large portion of the cost being the custom cut "flaps" (in small quantities). It seems like the cost could get in the $2-$4 range per character but I couldn't figure out how to do it without a significant amount of labor involved in cutting the flaps.

FYI, there's also a company called Oat Foundry that sells large split-flap displays [4]. I seem to remember the cost being in the $10k+ region but I don't see a price and I could be way off base.

Oh, interesting, I see Vestaboard also has a (smaller) one for around $3k [5].

[0] https://youtu.be/UAQJJAQSg_g

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/scottbez1/blank-split-flap-d...

[2] https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap/wiki

[3] https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap/wiki/Cut-flaps

[4] https://www.oatfoundry.com/split-flap/

[5] https://shop.vestaboard.com/products/vestaboard