Workshop
Pixel Animator Colour
Full-Colour Pixel Art Workshop
The advanced version: build your own full-colour pixel display with joystick and knobs, then draw and animate your own pixel art.
Description
Pixel Animator Colour is a creative workshop in which participants assemble a device similar to a "digital Etch A Sketch", developed specifically for this workshop. On its 8×8 full-colour screen, they can draw and animate their own pixel art.
Participants learn the basics of electronics and gain an insight into how electronic devices work: what an encoder, a joystick and a microcontroller are, and how an LED matrix works. In the final part of the workshop, they learn how to draw and animate their own digital creations, frame by frame.
Afterwards, participants take their Pixel Animator home to continue their creative explorations.
It is the more advanced sibling of the original Pixel Animator, designed for ages 9 and up.
Workshop
Structure:
The workshop starts with a demonstration of a fully assembled Pixel Animator Colour.
It is followed by a step-by-step assembly in which the function of each component is explained.
After building the device, participants test all its functions and start exploring drawing on it.
Finally, participants can ask further questions and, if interested, get a look at the code that controls the device.
Goals:
The workshop gives participants a first contact with both pixel art and electronic components, and motivates them to explore these subjects in more depth at home.
Everything is designed to be easy to understand, with enough depth to keep exploring without getting boring.
The kit is affordable enough for every participant to take their Pixel Animator home and keep playing with it there.
- Age
- 9+
- Duration
- 2 h
- Participants
- 6 (more on request)
- Good to know
- No soldering needed, Take-home kit, RGB LED matrix, Joystick & encoders
Book this workshop – Schools, associations and organisations can book this workshop for their group.