[HN Gopher] Open Source Ticker Tape
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       Open Source Ticker Tape
        
       Author : polygonIO
       Score  : 78 points
       Date   : 2021-11-16 16:00 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.polygon.io)
        
       | bruce343434 wrote:
       | "To make Medium work, we log user data. By using Medium, you
       | agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy."
       | 
       | Uhh, no I don't?
        
         | byhemechi wrote:
         | God this is infuriating, I've set Medium to "untrusted" in
         | NoScript and everything seems to work fine.
        
       | stacho wrote:
       | How customizable is the actual display interface?
        
         | qrpike wrote:
         | You can customize almost anything. Font colors, BG colors, size
         | of the boxes, animation speeds, scroll speeds and more. It was
         | created for our office (Polygon.io) but wanted others to be
         | able to make it their own, for their use case.
        
       | solarkraft wrote:
       | > we chose LG signage monitors, which we got on eBay for a heavy
       | discount.
       | 
       | Oh, that's beautiful. I'm so used to having to spend 2-10x to
       | fulfill formal constraints (proper billing, certification, ...).
       | Feels terrible every time. This is refreshing.
       | 
       | Also, big props on doing something fun. So many companies switch
       | between ,,we don't have time for fun/cool stuff" and ,,oh no,
       | we're 20% under-utilized!!!" instead of doing something like this
       | to boost morale.
       | 
       | About styling: The inside ticker looks great, but oh man, the
       | mocked-up outside one looks out of place. The whole branding
       | does. Maybe you could start with a proper sign on the top of the
       | wall to replace that painted square ...
        
       | blutack wrote:
       | This is really neat. If you were interested in doing it in future
       | with dot matrix panels for that real hollywood trader look, take
       | a look at HUB75 addressable panels.
       | 
       | Not _crazy_ expensive on Aliexpress and friends.
       | 
       | https://github.com/pixelmatix/SmartMatrix has more details on
       | hardware/software required.
        
         | qrpike wrote:
         | Thanks for the info! This would be really interesting to try.
         | The code is structured so that most would be reusable with a
         | different rendering method. We may purchase a couple to try
         | out.
        
       | orestis wrote:
       | Huh, back when we were developing the interactive Timeline at
       | https://www.edmstudio.com/portfolio/moad/ , we did something
       | similar for the artistic effect: various speech bubbles floating
       | across screens.
       | 
       | The way we approached was that each screen was drawing
       | everything, but offset relative to the physical location, and to
       | animate everything synchronously, one machine was continuously
       | broadcasting UDP packets with just IDs and positions, essentially
       | driving everything. There was some fancy code for failover (there
       | was no central server) plus ability to interact with the speech
       | bubbles (can't recall the details).
       | 
       | We did something similar many times and broadcasting positions
       | with UDP always worked out fine, with a big assumption: a
       | reliable wired local network :)
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Aw, they never did the outdoor one.
       | 
       | That takes weatherproof sunlight-readable displays, which are
       | available but not as cheap as ordinary indoor ones.
        
         | the_gipsy wrote:
         | What a let-down.
        
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