--- title: A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady | daily.dev description: A maker built an unconventional flip disc display using a single CNC-driven tool head instead of individual per-pixel actuators. The 37x18 grid of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-flip-disc-display-that-does-it-slow-and-steady-jzwb18xdx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady | daily.dev og:description: A maker built an unconventional flip disc display using a single CNC-driven tool head instead of individual per-pixel actuators. The 37x18 grid of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-flip-disc-display-that-does-it-slow-and-steady-jzwb18xdx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jzwB18XDx.png og:image:alt: A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker built an unconventional flip disc display using a single CNC-driven tool head instead of individual per-pixel actuators. The 37x18 grid of black-and-blue discs is flipped one at a time by a tool head equipped with a color sensor and LIDAR to identify which discs to flip and how far to push them. While slow, the approach avoids the complexity of wiring an actuator to every pixel. Anyone can draw or upload images to be displayed on the project, called PAR, directly from a browser. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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