Worlds Largest Open-Source Ferrofluid Display - Fetch #8
Fetch is DONE! This is huge for us. We've now spent two years working on our open-source ferrofluid display as a side project to full-time studies and part-time jobs. We've compiled a series of sweet sweet animations and spent a long time perfecting this video. We hope you enjoy it!
Since last time we've hidden the cable chaos. For the initial version of "Fetch" we wanted to use laser cut plywood as a chassis, because it's a very replicable and simple solution. We will look into a making a neater metal finish in the next version, which will be considerably sleeker, for an even cleaner look.
We make the animations in Aseprite, a powerful and free* pixel art editor, and parse them into a format we've found easy to read on the Teensy 3.6 that's at the heart of the platform.
(*As long as you can compile the source code yourself. )
Future projects
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While Fetch is now complete, we are not done working with ferrofluid, or electronics for that matter. We are currently researching ways of making a "flat screen" version, and even much smaller ferrofluid displays that are cheaper to replicate. We are also working on implementing more software features, like video-games, in the version we've already made. This paragraph marks the end of the project, but not the end of our ferrofluid display endeavors. Stay tuned!
For our own convenience, we also added a few buttons and switches that makes it simpler to show a variety of animations when displaying the project at maker festivals.As a student-project at the University of Oslo, we have designed and built a massive ferrofluid-display with 252 electromagnetic "pixels".
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Open Source files and project details:
Code:
Github repositories (Firmware+CAD+python parser): https://github.com/AppliedProcrastina...
PCB files & more details:
Instructables: https://www.instructables.com/id/Mesm...
Hackaday.io: https://hackaday.io/project/167056-fe...
Hackster.io: https://www.hackster.io/AppliedProc/f...
Arduino project hub: https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/...
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Credits:
Audio Mastering:
Haldor August Sørmoen:
Intro/Theme song:
Nicklas Myhre: / myhre.nicklas
Music:
Get to Know You (Instrumental Version) - Cody Francis from EpidemicSound.com
Applied Procrastination by Nicklas Myhre
Mexico (Instrumental Version) - Gamma Skies from EpidemicSound.com
Endless motion from Bensound.com
Sound Effect Mixing:
Eivind Rostad
Aseprite:
https://www.aseprite.org/