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The goal of this post is to docu*ent the design and programming of a small PCB with a 16×16 0606 RGB Led matrix, and microcontroller driver for the purpose of displaying graphics, animations, and text. While there are 0404 RGB LEDs on the market, the 0606 size is more affordable, and small enough to enable a 16×16 matrix to be made 4cm2. In an effort to keep the overall PCB small, I opted to direct The motivation for this project was to design a portable color matrix to display simple video game sprites and animations on, and to have it small enough to be worn as a badge for the upcoming MakerFaire. It was a fun reason to design a 4 layer board in Altium Designer, and also to get experience using solder paste and stencils to solder tiny SMD parts. This year I had the opportunity to design and build an interactive light installation for my friend’s band Leo Aether. The installation acts as a real time audio spectrum an*lyzer or graphic equalizer, with a rainbow of color from the red low end to the high end violet. This post will serve to docu*ent the design and building process, as well as the experience of deploying it on stage at this years Creative City for a column is represented by how many of the levels are lit, the same as for a graphic equalizer. Below is a short video of the Video games are typically designed around a microprocessor that is embedded within a console or computer system. While this is the typical case these days, it is not the way that video games always been crafted. In its infancy, the first video game experience was that of a fully an*log system which implemented a crude form of table tennis on the quaint black and white CRT televisions of the time. With the introduction of TTL and then CMOS logic chips, there existed a new toolset to create simple logic games. The introduction of the microprocessor and its evolution over the many decades has provided a powerful and flexible platform for which to design video game systems