Split-Flap Departures Board

Columns of plastic letters cascade through a mechanical update and settle into individual final clicks.

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0.00 / 8.00 sMP3 preview · Worn station mechanism

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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command

$ sb get FT6N5NWS69@1 --preset worn -o split-flap-departures-board.wav

Source: motor-driven split-flap cells advance at 11-22 flips/s; each pawl makes a 0.4-4 ms noise tick.
Body: damped plastic plates colour the tick at 650-1800 Hz with broad, short-lived resonances. A moving plate adds 16-28 ms of filtered air/friction, darkening from 4.8 kHz toward 1.7 kHz.
Layers: a second, softer plate-seat impact follows 9-16 ms later; no room reverb or tonal motor whine.
Envelope: columns start successively over 0.3-1.2 s, flutter for 2.5-6 s and stop independently; the last isolated flips settle by 7.3 s. Longer renders repeat fresh update cycles every 8 s.
Variation: seeded column speed, stop time, plate tuning, timing jitter and contact strength; pan follows each column, making the update travel left to right rather than spray randomly.
Presets: compact four-cell display, dense sixteen-cell board, uneven worn mechanism and muted panel.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
columns	4 – 16	10	—	Active columns
speed	11 – 22	16	—	Flips per second
cascade	0 – 1	0.65	—	Cascade stagger
wear	0 – 1	0.2	—	Mechanism wear
softness	0 – 1	0.3	—	Plate damping
spread	0 – 1	0.75	—	Board width
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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