I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display via Ben Holmen[Shared]

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I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display via Ben Holmen

This image depicts a recording studio setup, likely for voice-over or audio production. The main focus is on a complex microphone array mounted on a wall, consisting of a grid of numerous small microphones attached to a wooden panel with dark gray framing. To the left of the microphone array is a large camera mounted on a tripod, with numerous cables running from it and around the studio.</p></p> <p><p>Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:27b

Six years ago I had an idea to build a large, inefficient display with a web interface that anyone could interact with. I've enjoyed Danny Rozin's unconvenional mirrors over the years and was inspired by an eInk movie player that played at 24 frames per hour that got me thinking about a laborious display that could slowly assemble an image.

I landed on the idea of a 40×25 pixel grid of pixels, turned one by one by a single mechanism. Compared to our modern displays with millions of pixels changing 60 times a second, a wooden display that changes a single pixel 10 times a minute is an incredibly inefficient way to create an image. Conveniently, 40×25 = 1,000 pixels, leading to the name Kilopixel and the six-letter domain name kilopx.com. How do you back down from that? That's the best domain name I've ever owned.

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