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Love this, and I've loved following this 🫶 I was only 34% confused when all I knew was that you were cutting up cubes of wood & painting them 😅 Hoping to make a 40x25 BOOST logo - it's been great to see what people have submitted 🙌

Please do it! It's such a joy to have other people submit art.

I'm very curious what does it *sound* like?

Just saw this on display, such a cool project, and gave me some inspiration to want to work on some projects again!

This went really well, the internet was good to me! I wrote about the experience here: benholmen.com/blog/kilopix...

If you stop censoring the penis pixels this thing is going to really take off

@benholmen.com give us kilopiXXXel you coward

This project has everything: a web app, a physical controller, a custom CNC build, generated gcode, tons of fabrication, 3d modeling, 3d printing, material sourcing - so much to get lost in. It's the most ambitious project I've ever built.

Picking pixels was a real adventure. I've tried ping pong balls, styrofoam balls, bouncy balls, wooden balls, 3d printed balls, golf balls, foam balls... The problems I encountered were largely cost (even a 50¢ ball is $500 of balls), weight (again, 1000 of these things), and availability.

I settled on wooden cubes, painted black on two faces, and turned by a little poking mechanism.

thing broke