Microsoft Expressive Pixels project header: photo of man working on a LED device under a microscope

Microsoft Expressive Pixels

The need to express oneself is innate for every person in the world, and its roots run through art, technology, communication, and the acts of learning and building things from the ground up. It’s no coincidence, then, that a new platform being released by Microsoft Research, called Microsoft Expressive Pixels, stems from this belief.

screenshot of Microsoft Expressive Pixels app home screenExpressive Pixels introduces an authoring app combined with open-source firmware, peripherals, documentation, and APIs that allow users and makers to create animations and then display them on a range of colorful LED display devices. With implications in areas spanning from accessibility to productivity, creativity, and education, the technology’s potential for growth is limited only by the imaginations of its users and community—and the app can now be downloaded for free from the Microsoft store.

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