On: 48x32: A 1536 LED Game Computer

[thousandknives]

Small misunderstanding.

With hardware I meant the LEDs/LED matrix. What kind of LEDs did you use and how much did it cost you is what I wanted to know...

[dekhn → thousandknives]

I made a little portrait frame and MCU that draws Conway's Life.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09CTQ37DB (I got the 16x16 for $16). Another <$10 for the ESP32. A soldering iron ($40 for a pinecil), $verylittle for solder and hook up wire. In my case, a 3D printer ($500) plus filament ($20), and some design software ($500/year, because Fusion 360 expensive).

[angus-prune → thousandknives]

The information was in the post - ws2812 (or ws281x, there are variations) which are also known by the semi-brandname "neopixel".

They come in various form factors including fairy lights, strips and matrixes.

They are very easy to work with, and there are good libraries or open source platforms (eg wled) to run them.