After a lot of soldering the first panel of the Led matrix at the lab went in today. Conway’s game of life will initially be displayed on it with the game playing out over a couple of days. Hopefully with all the things we learned adding more boards will be easy since we will have a way to manufacture them much more rapidly now. You can check out the build photos here and later ones here including some time lapse photos of it at night.
Project details are on the wiki.

2 comments
rgbiv says:
May 31, 2011
Congrats, man. Cannot wait to check it out.
SteveC says:
Jun 1, 2011
Sweet! So is it actually running Conway’s game of life now? Last I saw it had some patterns flashing, but it wasn’t CGOL. Anyway, it looks cool… and that’s a cool picture. You should make a video and send it to makezine.com, they’re into that kind of stuff.