This display was built for NewZag, a company that needed a way to visualize how many businesses they had helped — shown live on a custom pixel matrix. The catch: their logo called for a 9×16 dot matrix, an oddball size you simply can't buy off the shelf. So it was built from scratch: WS2812B LED strips cut to length, a grid of 3D-printed pixel cells assembled row by row, hand-wired connectors between segments, and a lot of soldering. A lot of soldering.

The finished display sits in a wooden frame and can render graphics and animations pixel by pixel. It took patience — populating a 9×16 grid by hand is exactly as tedious as it sounds — but the result is a one-of-a-kind piece made to fit a specific brief that no off-the-shelf product could have answered.