Armory Flipdisks Project

Here at Armory, we have an art project using flipdisk to display messages and other content. This project is structured as a monorepo, with 3 main projects.

Web Admin client
Hardware Controller
Flipdisk Server

Equipment List

AlphaZeta

Armory has negotiated a 3% discount for you w/ AlfaZeta on flip disc panel orders of 50 pieces or more. Just mention "Armory Discount" when you order when you email Marcin at info@AlfaZeta.pl, they're also available at +48.42.689.1200.

Raspberry Pi

This is our main hardware controller for the boards.
Non-affiliate link

USB to RS485 Serial Data Converter

A simple USB data converter. 1 of these can talk to 10 (14x28) AlphaZeta panels.
Non-affiliate link

Deploying controller

After working on the code, you can deploy it by:

ssh-copy-id pi@192.168.86.26  # add your key for easy login

./bin/build-controller.sh
./bin/deploy-controller.sh

Tips and Tricks

flipdisk-controller deamon

To check on the status on the service, you can do

journalctl -f -u flipdisk.service

Add some other user's key

You can use your public github key as auth! Get someone to log you in and then you can do:

curl https://github.com/your_github_username.keys >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys