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Giant Peggy-based LED display

SenorBon's mega-Peggy plays Conway's Game of Life, Pong, and generates music -

We built a giant LED board, about 6.5x6.5 feet, with 900 LEDs using ping-pong balls as diffusers. It can play Conway's Game of Life, Pong, and Sketch mode that allows you to create a starting pattern for Life. We output board state information to a MIDI board that allows us to make music based on what is displayed. This gets interesting with Life, creating minimalist generative music.

Check out the project's photoset on Flickr. [via EMSL]

In the Maker Shed:

Peggy 2 Kit

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Posted by: John on September 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM

In what way is this peggy-based except that it's a matrix of LEDs?

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Posted by: Collin Cunningham on September 2, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Seems it was built using the Peggy's schematic.
From the creator's description - "… Peggy 2.0, upon which we based the circuit for our project."

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Posted by: Dzl on September 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Robot runs Matrix display!

Here is another great project using a huge display, this time with an industrial robot running the show!

http://illutron.dk/posts/241

"In the interactive dimension of the installation, the spectator is asked to express his or her own creativity in paper drawings. N7331227 then attempts to copy the drawings via a panel which controls 96 light bulbs in a matrix."

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