Instant Classic

The Oat Foundry Split Flap Display is a modern take on the classic ‘departures’ boards historically found in European airports. Split Flaps are one-of-a-kind, unforgettable installations: the intersection of mesmerizing art, electro-mechanical complexity, and interactive technology.

A completely re-imagined modular design allows for the nostalgic technology to be reliable and applied to a plethora of use cases. Today, Flip Boards are used in dozens of different ways worldwide.

The familiar clack clack sound that sparks memories of past travels remains the same and continues to delight viewers, young and old.

Made in Philadelphia

Every Split Flap Display is built by hand for your specific project. Oat Foundry’s team of engineers design and manufacture every part of Split Flap at our shop in Philadelphia — from sheet metal and PCB design to how we get the motors to turn the flaps. We also work with local vendors in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This allows us to offer a wide variety of sizes and customizations while maintaining the highest levels of quality control.

Analog Lookbook

Each year, we work with our clients to produce a lookbook to show some of our favorite recent installations. The most recent edition includes a wide variety of projects, including a stunning Hungarian font with The First Strudel House to spontaneous poetry at the LA Philharmonic. Read more about our design process and how we go about designing and building these custom displays.
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New School use cases

Creative Freedom

Go ahead, get creative! Oat Foundry Split Flap Displays are customizable for typefaces, font color, flap color, logos, icons, and more. With this, your display can accurately represent your branding and make a bold statement to the world.

Temporary installation?

Have a temporary event, trade show, popup, or activation? We also rent a select few Split Flap Displays for weekly and monthly use. These are perfect for playing on a travel theme, or attracting conference-goers to your booth!

Send messages with any device

The display has a cloud-based messaging interface so you can send your custom messages from anywhere in the world – manually or autonomously. The web app was built from the ground up with the Split Flap in mind, so each of the thousands of parts work in harmony once you press “Send” on your message.

Quick Messages

Send a one-off message with the touch of a button directly to Split Flap using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or any device with a web browser. Watch a demo of the web app here.

Create a schedule

Using the web app, you can program messages to run on a schedule throughout the day or even all day! With this, you can set it and forget it, Split Flap will know to rotate through the messages you set in place. You can create and save any number of scheduled messages.

Custom integrations & apps

Split Flap can also be controlled by integrations with 3rd party data sources such as APIs. With this, Split Flap can show real-time information from user polls, act as an “order up!” POS system and more. Check out this real-time flight tracker integration we built for Nolita Hall, a beer hall near the San Diego Airport.

Custom Software

If you want more than the norm, we offer custom software programming upon building your Split Flap Display. Our Software Engineers can program everything from real-time sports scores to the classic game Snake. Check out our full custom software suite here!

Art in Motion

Say goodbye to static vinyls and banners – bring your branding to life. Picture Flap attracts attention with motion and sound. It’s ideal for story telling, offices, art installations, and more. The Picture Flap displays are designed as modular units and can form any size or orientation.

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Meet Kristy and Colleen, they work with new and returning clients on custom Split Flap Display projects. Click the button below to schedule a call with them.