# flip dots

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## Building an Interactive Fluid Simulation on a Flip-Dot Display

DevFeed: [Building an Interactive Fluid Simulation on a Flip-Dot Display](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/enormous-fluid-simulation-on-flip-dots-is-also-enormous-amount-of-work-60559.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hackaday.com/2026/09/27/enormous-fluid-simulation-on-flip-dots-is-also-enormous-amount-of-work/>)

Author: Donald Papp

Published: 2026-09-27T14:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hackaday](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hackaday.md>)

Topics: [Flip-Disc Display](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/flip-disc-display.md>), [Simulation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/simulation.md>)

Tags: [accelerometer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accelerometer.md>), [art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/art.md>), [classic-hacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/classic-hacks.md>), [emf-2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emf-2026.md>), [flip-dot-display](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flip-dot-display.md>), [flip-dots](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flip-dots.md>), [fluid-simulation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fluid-simulation.md>), [pcb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pcb.md>)

### AI overview

mitxela's EMF 2026 installation displayed a fluid simulation using surplus flip dots. Building it required custom driver boards and extensive soldering. A joystick let visitors change the simulated gravity, while an accelerometer enabled responses to physical movement.

### Source excerpt

Flip dot displays are cool, and more people realize that after [mitxela]'s fluid simulation on flip dots installation was on display at EMF 2026. As glorious as the result is, ...read more