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I try this?

A home for the things I build, the experiments that escape the workbench, and the notes that help you try them yourself.

Published project · Source available

Pixel Demo Board

A browser dashboard that puts 30 animated demos on a 32 × 32 iDotMatrix display. Built and tested on the Enventor Pixel Mini Fridge, with a preview you can use without the hardware.

Browser-basedBluetoothOne HTML file
Try it yourself — setup & instructions
  1. Open Pixel Demo Board.html on GitHub and download the raw file.
  2. Open the downloaded file in Chrome or Edge. You can try its on-screen demos without connecting a display.
  3. To use compatible hardware, disconnect the phone app, choose Connect display, and select your device in the Bluetooth picker.
  4. Keep the controller tab open. Browser and platform support varies; the Enventor fridge is the hardware used for this build.
Read the full build notes
A smiling face made of pixels.

Interactive sketches inspired by the project.
The full dashboard has 30 animated demos.

From the workbench / Troubleshooting

A black screen, solved.

The fix for an EverDrive 64 X7 that wouldn’t boot on the ModRetro M64. A useful place to start if your retro setup has gone quiet.

Read the troubleshooting notes
Planned section / Local AI

Room for the next experiment.

A place for local model setups, hardware notes, and reproducible experiments. No project has been published in this section yet.

More build notes belong here as they’re ready.

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