A little display. A lot of personality.
A 64×32 LED matrix that rotates through the pages you leave on, with a settings site on your own Wi-Fi and an iPhone app that paints straight onto the panel.
The display
Small panel. Rotating cast.
PixelPop is a HUB75 LED matrix, 64 pixels wide and 32 tall. It is not a sign with one message. It takes turns through the functions you switch on, in the order you drag them into.
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A matrix with a personality
Clock, weather, forecast, air quality, calendar, reminders, countdown, photos, flights overhead, fireworks, lava, fire, an arcade game, chimes, a news ticker, a marquee, and a few more. Each one is its own page. Turn one off and the rotation simply skips it.
- Clock
- Weather
- Forecast
- Calendar
- Reminders
- Photos
- Flights
- Fireworks
- Lava
- Arcade
- Chimes
- News
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On your Wi-Fi
It joins a 2.4 GHz network, then shows an address on the panel. From a phone on that same network, open the address, or open pixelpop.local. You can rename the device in settings. The iOS app finds PixelPop boards with local discovery, so you don't type an address to start painting.
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Gallery
The display keeps a small gallery of photos, up to 16, stored on the board. Add them from the settings page and they take a turn with everything else. Fit them by stretching, cropping, or showing the whole picture with black bars.
PixelPop Companion
Paint on the panel from your iPhone.
Companion is the iOS paint app. While Paint is open, the matrix pauses its usual rotation and mirrors the canvas live, one pixel on the phone to one LED. When you leave, the pages come back on their own.
Draw tones
A stroke can have a sound. Draw tones play while you paint, so the sketch is something you hear as well as something the LEDs show.
Same pixels
The canvas is the panel's own 64×32 grid. What you draw is what the matrix lights up, not a photo shrunk down after the fact.
Already nearby
Open the display you have.
Settings live on the matrix itself, on your Wi-Fi.
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Join it the first time
Power on. If it has no network yet, it opens a setup Wi-Fi named PixelPop. Connect, pick your 2.4 GHz network, and enter the password.
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Open the settings site
Once it connects, the panel shows its address for a few seconds. Open that in a browser, or go to pixelpop.local from a device on the same Wi-Fi. The name follows whatever you set on the display.
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Or let Companion find it
On the same network, PixelPop Companion looks for boards nearby and paints on the one you pick.
Open pixelpop.local Works only on the same Wi-Fi as the display.