Breakfast, LLC

Points Lab Co.

Andrew Zolty

Mattias Gunneras

Andrew Laska

Mick Maloney

Andrew McIntyre

Mattias Hans Gunneras

Mohammad Hosein Asgari

Michael Fazio

Lee Marom

Sebastian Schloesser

Will Rigby

Michael William Lipton

Brandon Orr

One variation of the tile display includes a set of tile assemblies, each tile assembly includes: a base plate; a tile panel; a tile interface; and a set of linear actuator assemblies arranged in a radial pattern about the base plate and cooperating to constrain the tile panel in angular roll, linear heave, and linear sway motion relative to the base plate. Each linear actuator assembly includes: a bearing housing defining a linear bearing, a floating bearing, and a through-hole; an actuator mounted to the bearing housing; a distal link coupled to the tile interface; a first support boom running through the linear bearing; a second support boom running through the floating bearing; and a driven boom running through the through-hole of the bearing housing. Each tile assembly also includes a primary controller configured to maneuver tile panels over ranges of angular pitch, angular yaw, and linear surge positions.

Mechanical non-binary sway tile display

One variation of system includes a set of a brixel units and a primary controller configured to distribute a set of actuation routines to the set of brixel units, each brixel unit including: a chassis including a motor mount and a arm extending outwardly from the motor mount and defining a drive post mount opposite the motor mount; a motor coupled to the motor mount; a drive post arranged on the drive post mount and driven by the motor; a pixel element mounted to and configured to rotate with the drive post and including a first face defining a first visual characteristic and a second face defining a second visual characteristic; and a local controller configured to store an actuation routine and to drive the motor to locate the pixel element over a sequence of angular positions, relative to the arm, defined by the actuation routine.

Mechanical non-binary brixel and brixel display

One variation of a method for updating a flip-disc display includes, at each panel controller within each panel within the flip-disc display: accessing a frame defining target color positions of flip-disc pixels in each module in the corresponding panel; designating a subset of flip-disc pixels in the panel based on differences between target color positions of flip-disc pixels defined in the frame and current color positions of flip-disc pixels in the panel; defining a discontinuous order for serially issuing update commands to each module in the panel; and, during each update instance in a series of update instances within the current update cycle, serving a next update command to each module in the panel to invert one flip-disc pixel in each module in the panel according to the discontinuous order of update commands assigned to each module in the panel.

Modular flip-disc display system and method

Described are robotic signs comprising: a sign post; an arm movably attached to the sign post, the arm having a positioning apparatus configured to allow the arm to rotate independently and contiguously around the sign post, the arm having at least one face comprising an electronic display configured to present display items; and a communication element configured to receive display item information from a remote administration application, the display item information comprising a direction and a description; wherein upon presenting a display item, an arm rotates to indicate the direction and displays the description. Also described are software applications for configuring the robotic signs, networks of the robotic signs, and advertising systems utilizing the robotic signs.

Robotic smart sign system and methods

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Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

Andrew Zolty