SPLIT-FLAP DISPLAYS FOR SCHOOLS & CAMPUSES
Keep the campus in sync with a board that flips dismissal lanes, bell schedules, and event listings into clear split-flap type. Schools and campuses run flaps.tv in a browser on existing TVs and projectors — fork a template, customize it for your buildings, and update announcements the moment plans change.
A live earthquake monitor that lists recent seismic events — magnitude and place — from the USGS all-day GeoJSON feed on an 11x44 split-flap grid. Newsrooms, geology classrooms, and data-curious offices run it as a real-time wall display with the source credited on the board. The repeater widget shows four events at a time in orange.
A public library events board that flips the next program time from today's schedule, pulls upcoming public holidays from a live API feed, and cycles hours and visitor reminders in a ticker. Sized at 11x42 for a lobby TV near the front desk, it covers programs, closures, and holds pickup in one glance.
A kitchen command center that flips today's date, live Chicago weather, and a next-up countdown through the family's day — 7:45 school run, 3:20 pickup, 6:00 soccer, 8:30 wind-down — with a reminder ticker for lunches, practice, and trash night. Families mount it on the kitchen TV or a spare monitor so the whole household reads one schedule at breakfast.
A school dismissal board that counts down to the next pickup wave — 2:45, 2:55, 3:05, and 3:15 — while a blue ticker tracks bus A loading, bus C waiting, and the car line, above a "keep pickup cards visible" reminder. Front offices aim it out a lobby window or at the parent loop so families know exactly when their wave is called.
A high-contrast alert board that flips status messages like "all clear" or "shelter in place" in red, alongside live local weather and instruction lines such as "use stairwells" and "meet at north lot." Facilities teams keep it as a standby scene for office, school, and venue TVs. Every status and instruction is editable after forking.
A family chore board that flips three color-coded task tickers — morning, after school, and evening — plus a green progress bar showing how much of the day's list is done. It hangs on the kitchen or hallway TV where kids actually see it. Fork it and swap in your family's real chores, from feeding the dog to lights out.
A game day board counting down to kickoff with live Philadelphia weather and a rotating fan ticker — doors open 5pm, wear home colors, tailgate lot C. Schools, arenas, bars, and fan caves run it through the week before a big matchup so the countdown builds in the room. Change one target date and the whole board points at your next game.
A campus events board that counts down to the next event, cycles today's lineup — career fair, film club, guest lecture, open lab — and flips announcements like late library hours and finals-week coffee. Student centers, libraries, and department lobbies run it as always-on signage that student workers can update in a browser without a designer or a print run.
A rideshare pickup board that rotates zone status — zone A open, zone B overflow, taxis lane 3 — beside a green six-minute wait counter and a fixed "meet drivers at the blue awning" instruction line. Hotels, arenas, and campuses hang it at the curb or exit doors so guests find their ride without a staffer repeating directions all night.
A bus arrivals board that cycles routes 12 downtown, 19 crosstown, and 42 express, counts down to the next bus, and shows live Seattle weather above an orange service-alerts ticker. Built for transit lobbies, campus shuttle stops, and apartment buildings near a stop. Alerts like "use rear doors" and "detour on pine" flip through on their own dedicated row.
Campus boards for dismissal, bells, and the daily churn
Dismissal is the stress test: dozens of lanes, hundreds of parents, and a window of minutes. A dismissal board gives each lane or bus a row with an oversized number and status column, and staff flip students through from a phone or laptop — every hallway and gym screen updates in the same second, so the office stops relaying over the intercom. Fork a dismissal template and size the rows to be read from the back of a full gym.
The rest of the day runs on scenes. Morning announcements rotate with the lunch menu and club listings on set durations; a bell-schedule scene pairs a countdown widget with the current period so passing time manages itself. Feeds you already maintain can drive the content — a JSON export from your SIS or dismissal system updates boards in real time on the Business plan — while any office edits its own text from the dashboard without touching a screen.
Cost and hardware fit school reality. The boards run in a browser on the TVs, projectors, and Fire TV sticks the district already owns, so there is no signage-player purchase to justify. Building and testing is free — set everything up before the budget meeting — and going live is $8/mo for a single screen or $79/mo for unlimited displays across buildings. Departments fork their own boards; the front office keeps shared scenes, like early-release notices, correct everywhere at once.
- 01Dismissal board by lane or bus number
- 02Bell schedule and period countdown
- 03Today's events and assembly times
- 04Student-center and club announcements
- 05Lunch menu and rotation day
- 06Snow-day and early-release notices
Can the dismissal board show bus or pickup numbers as kids are called?
Yes — staff flip each lane or bus number from a phone or laptop, and the board updates in real time on every hallway TV at once.
Will the bell schedule follow our early-release and special days?
Load the day's schedule or connect a JSON feed from your SIS, and the board flips period times and countdowns to match without manual resets.
Is this practical on the older TVs and projectors we already have?
Yes. It runs in any browser on smart TVs, Chromecast, or Fire TV sticks, so existing classroom and hallway screens need no new hardware.
What does this cost a school to run?
Nothing while you build — layouts can be designed and shared for approval free. A live hallway screen is $8/mo on Starter; Pro covers five displays for $29/mo, and Business at $79/mo handles a whole campus with unlimited screens and SIS data feeds.
Can one hallway screen change content through the school day?
Yes. Morning announcements, the lunch menu, and the dismissal board load as separate scenes with durations, and the display rotates on its own. On early-release days, staff swap the schedule scene once from the dashboard and every screen follows.
START FROM A TEMPLATE
Pick a board, customize the copy and data, and open it in a supported Chrome or Edge player.