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

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...

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/10/17/i-spent-6-years-building-a-ridiculous-wooden-pixel-display-via-ben-holmenshared/

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@douglaswelch Here's an alt-text description of the image:

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. A poster is visible on the left wall with the text “GLACIAL DEPOSITS OF WISCONSIN, LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN THE UPPER MIDWEST” partially visible. A piece of electronic equipment sits on the floor in the foreground, and a light with the text “RALE” is visible in the upper right corner.

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