The Game Frame Pixel Art Project

[@AdventuresofaGeek]

Sold! I am getting this. Now I'm off to Kickstarter to fund the heck out of this.

[@beastlybamboy]

what would be mind blowing is if you could take lots of these frames and combo them in to a huge pixel display like maybe 256 x 256 and then playing downsample clips on it

[@WiZeR911]

Jeremy you need to create a community around this product. People sharing pixel art and making their own mods and variations, etc.

[@bobbobowiz3907]

I'm sure this is inevitable. Check 16:00 As an inventor this would be a great idea to start up yourself.

[@jweed6]

People who've never made a custom project and are used to cheap electronics probably don't understand, but It is very reasonably priced. You could build it yourself for slightly less but you'd have to track down all the parts and it would not end up looking as good as game frame looks. Ordering small (

[@tested]

And injection molding the grid that makes it look rad is also crazy expensive, although you could probably make something comparable by hand, if you took enough time.

[@GarrettKeith]

I can imagine someone taking like 100 of these and make a full resolution screen, that would be EPIC!

[@pujp240]

13:40 Does it work with horizontal film strip files too? Someone please answer! If it does work, than I'm pretty much sold on the game frame. If it doesn't, could someone point me in the direction of a GIF to vertical film strip converter?

[@truckrally]

Also, it seems it´s an addressable LED-strip, they should have power connected from more that one place, it seems it´s only plugged in in one end, in that case, the last LED:s at for example white light, might be yellowish instead.

[@xloppielx]

Really nice but $200+ for a completed one is way to expensive for me : (

[@garymalarkey4626]

***** I agree. It's a neat idea but I could totally make my own for way cheaper.

[@jordankloosterman2966]

i was expecting the $60 tier to be the complete one

[@deryaozfidan7442]

Same .-. students don't have that much money😭

[@scottjones8100]

This thing is sorta like the evolution of an art display we oldsters played with back in the day, the "Lite Brite"

[@florianrapp7474]

Before a couple of years ago this was my first bigger projekt with the arduino. But "just" 8x8 and monochome. I had no idea from nothing, and after one year it was finished. (I have made it with two 74HC595.) Check out the arduino homepage! Today there are many more help for you. To find out how this things are working, this is the fun!

[@BlockABoots]

Will there be a 32x32 version in the future??

[@TomMinnick]

what is the name of the app Norm recommended at 11:19? I couldn't understand what he said.

[@soviut]

Seems like this would be a neat way to show dynamic QR codes.

[@pujp240]

What's an easy and free way to convert a 1920x1080 or 1280x720 video to a 16x16 image sequence? and, once I have that image sequence, how would I have it play at the same speed that the original video did?

[@Joepopa12]

16:38 yeha can see its tron once they zoom out a bit pretty cool

[@Haltedboy]

I didn't need them to zoom out to see it xD

[@maxximumb]

I wonder how long till we see a rendering of 16 bit Star Wars on one of these, akin to the ASCII art version.

[@unlisted9494]

$200 box filled with RGB LED's, hilarious. This guy's winning.

[@xVern]

Oh man, its that easy?!

[@Kuroi]

Vern Meyer actually, it is, there is a lot of open source projects just like this one, and a led matrix doesnt costs more than 20 dollars to be made, the pcb cant be more than 30 dollars to be made at an eletronics shop too, so you are paying 200 bucks for a box filled with rgb leds and a pcb, that normaly would cost 50 bucks, so you are paying 150bucks for a software that is almost the same as A LOT of other open source ones that costs nothing, yeah, its way overpriced, cool project, but the price is ridiculous, the guy is nuts

[@Kuroi]

people should do their research, just search a little bit about led matrix prices on ebay, take a look at the price the eletronics shop is wanting for the pcb and search the internet for about 5 minutes to find open source projects, save 150 bucks

[@dacasman]

What about the arduino? What about the material and the labor it takes to build and do all the electronic work like soldering not to mention programming the thing? Maybe if this thing was mass produced my some toy company or something it would be cheaper, but these are hand made.

[@Kuroi]

exactly. nothing more than 50 dollars, hand made? anyone can hand make these at home, just a little bit of time and dedication, they ARE overpriced, 150 bucks just cause the guy had the job of puting all togheter? for gods sake, i will make you a 12 bucks burguer and you will pay me 300 bucks cause i put it all together ok?

[@TheSkyCactus]

Where can i find the PCB at 17:10?

[@vanzonhl]

how do you figure out from the arduino board you use, what the maximum of LED's or switches you can use ?

[@ReyTheRat]

Could I have the link to the iPad program you used to create the pixel art please,

[@cliffliongod]

11:23 What was the name of the app?

[@iiooowOwoooii]

I'd love to see this in person; my 720p LED monitor just doesn't do 16X16 LED justice :(

[@OfficialGloomySugar]

why did the leds seem like they died during the eyes?

[@edmondsonj]

It would be awesome if it had a clock mode!

[@n8guy]

You could do this with the right image sprite coupled with the right timing .ini file. Which would come out to 1440 image states to display every minute of the day. But yeah, a program would be much better. :)

[@pujp240]

is that thing that norm was talking about (sending them clips for them to show us what it looks like on the game frame) possible? if so, where do i go to send a clip?

[@LazyBunnyKiera]

for movies, instead of 1 ultra tall BMG that may or may not save, just use multiple images, each fairly tall, instead of a million pixel tall bmp

[@NuubMaster]

I'd prefer a 32x32 matrix, but 16x16 is really nice for the those old arcade sprites like they were saying.

[@rocketman221projects]

If you used an atmega2560 you could do 32x32 or even bigger with some external ram.

[@PantslessDragon]

Are these 3-colour LEDs or 4-colour? Just RGB, or is white its own LED too?

[@LastRageDancer]

The movie is Tron(1982)

[@kristian723]

Entiendo que lo querian probar en la oscuridad pero pudieron haber agregado unas pocas luces. No se ve muy bien.

[@ChrisEllerby]

My moneys, you have them. I know you mentioned that it will come with a limited set of animations, but is there a way to have hundreds (if not thousands) of animations loaded in off a USB drive? Would also love a mod/expansion to have it web-enabled so it could connect to an online community/arcive like eboy and get new animations daily. I think one of my Raspberry Pis may just get incorporated into this.

[@JasperWaale]

Remember my old days as BBS owner making ANSI animations for menus and so on... Man Im old

[@artfx9]

Its kinda cool how people are reinventing old technology using tools available today..

[@frason85]

Cool project!

[@truckrally]

That MCU is 20 MHz w/o DMA, my stm32 is 168 with DMA, i would never use that. I wonder what the update frequency is on that, i imagine it´s not that good refresh rate.

[@MichaelAlm]

So Rad!

[@MichaelAlm]

Backed! cant wait to get mine! Already working on animations

[@mboo1865]

wat is the name of the ipad app he recommended?

[@tested]

Pixaki for iOS

[@mboo1865]

thank u

[@scottjones8100]

Up close, the movie clip didn't look like TRON or anything in particular...just a jumble of swirling colors. It's when you pulled back at the end that I said, "Ah, ok, NOW I see it."

[@vinycent]

where to buy?

[@ParametricStrawberry]

What kind of LEDs is he using?

[@hi3267]

strip led Eric Dyer

[@hi3267]

sorry not strip led it's separate led's with things in between.

[@kanan348]

If they make a 4k display,I'll get one!

[@owlredshift]

~3:18 the reflection of Jeremy in the picture lags behind his movement ever so slightly. Weeiiirrdd...

[@SolidGroundElectronics]

16 million colours per pixel due to the 8 bits per Red, Green and Blue leds

[@pylonsquelch1]

I just bought one - Because this video.

[@p0skhare98]

Where can I get Norms T-shirt and this product! I want! >:)

[@neilmc1983]

very cool!!

[@MoneyAndPeople]

ERRMAHGAWD.. get like 40 of these and you can have minecraft in real life!! perfect for that 16x16 texture!

[@SimonLeeds]

So far on and it's still a waiting list. I've ordered the "Led pixel art" one instead. Sorry man.

[@Knowie66777]

Code it to be a clock with cycling images.

[@ryan4747]

I want it so bad!

[@MinuxLP]

This is so cool :D

[@kontrolr1]

He said three times that he wanted to show the menu, couldnt get to that I suppose

[@TheDutchCuber1]

You can do the same thing with rubiks cubes

[@1damien1231]

How Mitch is it

[@Youritlam]

I want one!

[@Goldernturkey]

I think snake would be fun to play on this :)

[@NathanKirchner]

It is a very cool project but just a bit out of my price range at the moment.

[@Oersted4]

I REALLY love this concept but I think that it is way too expensive for what it is. 265$ for only one unit shiped internationaly? It is just absurd, I got the Oculus Rift for 50 bucks more. I was highly tempted to buy it after the video, I hope the price drops significantly after the Kickstarter ends. I'd pay 20$-30$ for it happily, maybe up to 50$, but nothing near the price that it currently has. It is a shame really. I'm sure it is costly for him to assemble them by hand but I'm sure that he would do great if he took a bigger risk. Hire a couple manufacturers or make them in china... It seems that there's a huge market out there for this things, it looks like a profitable endevour. But he'll get nowhere if the keeps charging that much. Sure, there are some cheaper alternatives out there but they aren't near the quality of this product. He has 100.000$ from the backers for God's sake! Do something with the money!

[@k1ngN0rk]

Wow congratulations for the $154,647 funding. It's not easy not to be jealous xD

[@ChrisD4335]

i like it but different sizes would be better

[@MrPafleouf]

Oo i want one !!!!

[@daisypeanut94]

Make them as fast as you can ! Once China sees this, it will be at every Walmart.

[@kaz55555]

very good

[@xnamkcor]

"Any color you can imagine". That word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

[@Zyhmet]

tron?

[@cabbycabby1770]

Little late to the party here. Have they figured out a more reasonable manufacturing solution yet? Having these handmade for $230 doesn't seem sustainable.

[@FrozenHaxor]

$200 for a piece of wood, 256 LEDs and a $2 microcontroller? Hahahahah

[@waynefpv]

wicked

[@satanvenit]

If they make it 1920x1080 I'll get one!

[@garejones7362]

Cool:)

[@MJKToys]

May as well start "de-resing" Star Wars now...

[@Damicske]

Take a bigger AVR, then you have more memory :p

[@TLOEric]

Good sweet Jesus I need this.

[@alexvrow]

I want.

[@stevanz1]

Video just drags on too much.

[@xnamkcor]

Enjoy your ContentID match.

[@tested]

Why would we have a ContentID match on this?

[@xnamkcor]

Tested Tron

[@truckrally]

Building my own, stm32 4 life

[@damienvince]

Darnit, Canada screwed again!

[@mememeet4140]

its not worth more than 20$

[@SELG88]

useless. everybody wants a kickstartes now.gotta love retro to love this and thats very limited

[@Reikai7Tantei]

Bmo who wants to play video games

[@thebigeven]

First

[@maoristereo]

This looks laughably useless