Divoom Pixoo Max Takes Pixel Art to the Max

Having grown up in the 1980s, I have a real fondness for pixel art. There are lots of ways to make pixel art of your own these days beyond using programs like Deluxe Paint, from melting Perler beads together to making images with 1×1 LEGO bricks. The Divoom Pixoo Max lets you make pixel art images and animations using a grid of colorful LEDs.

Its 9.6″ screen features a 32 x 32 grid of RGB LED pixels which can be programmed with a companion smartphone app. You can pick from numerous still and animated images in the Divoom Pixel Gallery or create your own. In addition, it can be programmed to display notifications from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram or to display the time or weather.

The Pixoo Max has a built-in stand or can be mounted on your fridge, a wall, or even your car windows. Since it runs on a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery, you can use it on the road. It’s available from Amazon (affiliate link) for $109.99.

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NEOPixel RGB LED Tubing Brings the Color

Love the look of neon lighting, but don’t want to deal with the fragility of glass and high voltage transformers? This tubular, flexible lighting can be bent into any shape you want without risk of damage, and a lights up in any color too.

There are lots of LED tube lights out there these days, but what makes the NeoPixel RGB light strip so nifty is the translucent silicone rubber exterior, which acts as a light diffuser. The result is smooth light instead of ugly dots. The strip is filled with 20 each of red, green, and blue LEDs, each clustered together to produce a variety of colors. Each strip measures 1-meter long and requires a 9v to 12v power source, along with NeoPixel WS281x data to tell the LEDs what color and brightness to display.

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This Colorful LED Rounded-key Keyboard Looks Sweet

I’ve seen keyboards with colorful LED backlighting, and keyboards with cool retro-style round keys. But this is the first time I’ve come across a single keyboard which combines the two ideas into one.

This colorful and distinctive keyboard from Ajazz features bright LED backlighting, which provides a brilliant backdrop to its rounded keys. The RGB backlit version can be programmed to display just about any color, along with some vibrant animations as shown in the video below, including some cool ones that follow the position of your keypresses:

In addition to the RGB version, there’s a blue backlit version if you don’t care for the disco lightshow of the full color version. Prices range from $79 for 87-key with blue lighting to $99 for the 104-key, RGB version. They’re available now from Brando.

Deal: $20 Bluetooth Color-Changing Smart Light Bulb

Set the mood just right with these colorful LED light bulbs from SingHong. Each bulb can display millions of different colors, all controllable directly from your smartphone.

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You can control up to 10 bulbs using the app, create light scenes, and set schedules for them to turn on and off. Each 7.5-watt bulb provides up 25,000 hours or more of runtime, so you won’t have to change them any time soon.

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Head over to the Technabob Shop now, where you can grab one of these color-changing LED bulbs for just $19.99 (USD) each.