Every letter is a real flap on a drum. Send a message and 132 of them spin, clack and land. Then the board goes back to whatever you gave it.
A channel is one thing the board knows how to show. Switch on the ones you want and it works through them, top to bottom, all day.
Type something and 132 flaps spin, clack and land. It holds for as long as you like, then the board goes back to its round.
Now and the next three days, from Open-Meteo. No key, no account. This is London, actually, right now.
Crypto, stocks, exchange rates, your GitHub commits, your followers. Prices here come from CoinGecko as you read this.
Headlines, on this day, any RSS feed. Long ones get shortened to fit rather than cut off mid-thought.
Not digits. The board says it the way a person would, which is the whole reason to have one on the wall.
One purchase of nothing at all, on every Apple device you own.
The board sits at the desktop level, behind your icons, on every Space, and animates as messages arrive. Not a picture of a board: the real one, flipping while you work. Or set it as a screen saver, or let it write a fresh desktop picture each time it settles.
Wall mode drops every button, keeps the screen awake and fills it with flaps. Landscape is where a 22-column board really fits, so an old iPhone propped against your monitor becomes a departure board for your day.
The whole screen is flaps. Swipe the remote for channels, and the local API is on from the first launch, so anyone in the house can post to the television from their phone.
A complication that carries whatever the board is showing, condensed to the lines that have something on them. Tap it for the next channel.
Every clack is made the moment it is needed, out of three parts and an envelope, with the numbers nudged so no two are the same. Have a listen to each one.
The finish you pick for the board goes all the way to the Home Screen. The realism icon has the hinge pins, the tilt and the print sitting a hair off centre, same as the flaps do.
Not a shortcut to the app, the board itself on your Home Screen. Tap it and it flips to your next channel without opening anything.
The system faces, rounded, serif or monospaced, or drop in a font file of your own. Weight, width and size are yours too.
Assign it and one press moves the board on. It is a Control Centre control and a Shortcuts action as well, so automations can drive it.
BBC, Guardian, Reuters, Hacker News, or any RSS feed you paste in. Headlines get shortened to fit rather than cut off halfway.
Football, NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL and Formula 1. Live scores while the match is on, and the next fixture when it is not.
Group channels into a scene, give it weekdays, or let a Focus pick one. The board sleeps at night the way a real one does.
Home Assistant, Zapier, n8n, a cron job or one curl can post to it unchanged. Send plain text, or the exact grid of character codes.
curl -X POST http://your-ip:7071/local-api/message \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"text": "GO FOR A WALK {green}"}'Free. No account, no subscription, no analytics, nothing phones home.