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Notes on split-flap sound design, rendering, and history.
Top 5 ways to use numbers on a split-flap board
Follower-count reveals, phone numbers that demand attention, countdowns, milestone counters, and scoreboards — five numeric uses for FlipLetters boards.
Top 12 ways to use FlipLetters (with the template for each)
Twelve real uses for split-flap video boards — YouTube ambience, birth announcements, restaurant menus, social intros, streaming screens, and more — each with the template to start from.
A short history of the split-flap display
From Solari di Udine's airport departure boards to flip-dot signage to your desktop — where the split-flap look actually comes from.
How to make a 3-hour ambience video without 3 hours of rendering
Why most video editors choke on multi-hour timelines, and how FlipLetters assembles long-form split-flap ambience videos losslessly in minutes.
Why split-flap boards sound the way they do
A breakdown of the mechanical click sound behind split-flap and flip-dot boards, and how FlipLetters synthesizes it instead of sampling a recording.