I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it. It draws a single pixel at a time and takes 30-60 minutes to complete a single image. Anyone can participate in the project by voting for the next image to be drawn, and submitting images. https://kilopx.com/
I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display launched on August 4, 2025 with 1,145 votes, #2 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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A wooden pixel display constructed over six years renders images one pixel at a time, requiring 30 to 60 minutes per complete image. Participants worldwide can submit images and vote on which image should be drawn next. The display contains 1,000 pixels total, making it intentionally impractical as a functional display but functional as a collaborative art project that invites global participation in its slow, deliberate drawing process.
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The world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it
Six years ago I had an idea to build a large, inefficient display with a web interface that anyone could interact with. I've enjoyed Danny Rozin's unconvenional mirrors over the years and was inspired by an eInk movie player that played at 24 frames per hour that got me thinking about a laborious display that could slowly assemble an image. I landed on the idea of a 40×25 pixel grid of pixels, turned one by one by a single mechanism. Compared to our modern displays with millions of pixels changing 60 times a second, a wooden display that changes a single pixel 10 times a minute is an incredibly inefficient way to create an image. Conveniently, 40×25 = 1,000 pixels, leading to the name…from benholmen.com
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