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Re:A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign by supernova87a on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:38AM (#20575284)
That would be really amusing. Those are called Solari boards, by the way, after the manufacturer (Solari di Udine).

Maybe someone enterprising might (or has?) created a character flipping routine that mimics the search through the tiles and set it to the authentic sounds?

The attempt by that company to create their own digital version is really bad. (search youtube for it)

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Re:A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign by guptaneil on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:48AM (#20575381)
Looks like https://www.vestaboard.com is that enterprising company.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/1/11/16876582/v...

I've never used it, but it does look interesting.

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Re:A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign by a_t48 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:18PM (#20576827)
I don't think vestaboard ever ended up shipping. I was somewhat interested in getting one, but now I'm really glad I didn't put down a deposit. Original estimates were Dec 2018 ship date, now they say Summer 2020.
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Re:A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign by taude on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:52PM (#20579883)
They are coming summer 2020, for about $2200. (I think it's been delayed a few times). They look cool. But for my personal use, not $2200 cool.
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Re:A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign by dwyerm on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:44AM (#20575348)
JWZ created a splitflap hack for xscreensaver. It includes broken flaps and missing flaps, and you can pipe text into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZOL2jyDey0

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