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Expired DotClk Pinball Animation Clock

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Early on I mentioned to @DrPinball that I would prefer an enclosed frame for his clock and he replied maybe in the future. Yesterday I received the parts from him to try on my clock to fill in the open sides, bottom and top so thanks very much Dave. I had attempted to fill the gaps myself with black perspex and it looked ok but was a pain in the ass every time I wanted to update the animations but David came up with a clever way of attaching the fill in panels....
Here are the 6 pieces...
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Here are the clever little linking pieces that hold the panels in place...

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How the links attach...

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and how they look in place, quite hard to get good photos, the thing is very stealthy :D

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and on the wall, not that you can really see the frame in the shots.....

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Very happy with it, much better than the way I did it ( with superglue :rofl: )

Not sure if this is Davids final design, or the price, but if the open sides bother you this is a very nicely done.

Well done Dave and thanks again :thumbs:
 
When I went to get the GOT scenes it said that 1240 scenes had been culled due to a limit of 1,000?? :-)

Not sure the GOT scenes are there? Is it just me?
 
Darthsinex said:
When I went to get the GOT scenes it said that 1240 scenes had been culled due to a limit of 1,000?? :)

Not sure the GOT scenes are there? Is it just me?
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It's github saying it can't display more than 1000 files. If you get the zip file you'll find they're all in there. Look for files beginning got.
 
I also have one of these. Looks fantastic, a really quality item.
Spent over half hour watching it and trying to name the game the animation is from, decided i know nothing about machines other than the machines i own.
Made up with it, makes a fantastic topper, would highly recommend.
:thumbs: to Dave the good Dr!
 
Can you time the animations to coincide with the minute change? and is there any noticeable burn in if left on permanently?

Regards Col
 
Colywobbles said:
Can you time the animations to coincide with the minute change? and is there any noticeable burn in if left on permanently?

Regards Col
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I think at the moment the animation timings aren't linked directly to the current time - the delay between animations is just set from an arbitrary time. So choosing 1 min between animations won't land on the exact minute. The source code is available from here:
https://github.com/sigmafx/DotClk

If you're up for it, have a look at what would be needed.

As for burn in - I've had mine running all day for 18 months now and it show no sign of it. I don't think LEDs suffer from this.
 
I think line 370 in DotClk.ino controls when an animation should start.
 
Marvello said:
Mine is set to every 5 minutes, so shows an animation at e.g. 20:00, 20:05 etc.

I'm sure when I had it set to every minute it showed it on the minute.
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If set to every minute, then it will show it on every minute - I interpreted the original question as meaning the animation commences on the exact moment the minute changes.
 
I don't have any stock of clocks at the moment.

I may not do the large clocks in the future, instead I'm thinking about selling a quarter size clock. This will allow me to use the same screens as the DmdXPress and so make things a bit easier. This means the clock will be the same size as a regular pinball display, plus a bit more for the frame.

However, I have no definite date for when these will be available.
 
DrPinball said:
I don't have any stock of clocks at the moment.

I may not do the large clocks in the future, instead I'm thinking about selling a quarter size clock. This will allow me to use the same screens as the DmdXPress and so make things a bit easier. This means the clock will be the same size as a regular pinball display, plus a bit more for the frame.

However, I have no definite date for when these will be available.
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If you do another run of the large clocks please let me know as I’d be interested in one. Thanks.
 
Best thing I ever bought. Love it

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@DrPinball

Would you mind if I looked into building/selling a small batch of the large LED boards?

I make produce a similar product in my spare time although its 192x32 and uses a raspberry pi as the controller and RGB HUB75 displays, but would not take me long to create a custom teensy board (have done in the past) for this.

Regards
Russell
 
russdx1 said:
@DrPinball

Would you mind if I looked into building/selling a small batch of the large LED boards?

I make produce a similar product in my spare time although its 192x32 and uses a raspberry pi as the controller and RGB HUB75 displays, but would not take me long to create a custom teensy board (have done in the past) for this.

Regards
Russell
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russdx1 said:
@DrPinball

Would you mind if I looked into building/selling a small batch of the large LED boards?

I make produce a similar product in my spare time although its 192x32 and uses a raspberry pi as the controller and RGB HUB75 displays, but would not take me long to create a custom teensy board (have done in the past) for this.

Regards
Russell
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I would be interested in a desktop version if you do one.
 
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