Forget smart lamps, these modular pixelated LED panels let you practically design your own ambiance

NFTs? Who needs them when you can make your own art on these pixelated panels!? The Twinkly Squares are a series of endlessly modular 8×8 LED panels that contain a total of 64 individually addressable LEDs. Use them as individual units or pair them together to create the canvas you want, creating wonderfully lo-fi art pieces that complement your space and add a touch of light and color to your home/tech/gaming setup.

Designer: Twinkly

The panels are easy to install, and can be oriented in a variety of styles (instead of just the square and rectangular shapes). The ultra-sleek panels sit just a few millimeters off the surface of the wall and illuminate in a total of 16 million colors.

The Twinkly Squares boast compatibility with smart home setups like Google, Apple, and Alexa, letting you control the lighting with your voice, or even synchronize it to your music. For gamers, there’s even support for Razer chroma RGB & OMEN Light Studio, allowing you to map your screen’s colors to the LED light panel for an even more immersive experience. The Twinkly app also lets you browse effects, patterns, and gradients, while even giving you the freedom to individually control each LED pixel to make your own artwork. Alternatively, you could take images and turn them into lo-fi pixel art pieces through the app too!

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The Power Of Writing Boards

Almost every meeting conducted has strong overtones of us being digital. While the e-notes are helpful, there is nothing collaborative about us when it comes down to sharing ideas. We need something tangible, something that we can feel while we talk through our thoughts. We need mc squares. Be it a store, home, conference room, work-space, lecture or simply brainstorming sessions, mc squares help to create a more efficient way to collaborate or keep reminders in our face.

Designed by Anthony Franco, the innovator saw the opportunity to make a board that increased all-round participation. Something fluid and functional – better than the existing options of sticky-notes, e-notes and dry-erase white boards. Having attended thousands of meetings and facilitating a number of them, Anthony’s version comes as a much-needed refinement in the field of communication.

The functional squares can be used individually or collectively as a whole. They combine the use of sticky-notes and dry-erase boards; each individual square comes with a mounting bracket, multiple templates (the clear part pops off to change templates), a dry erase pen and an eraser.

The pen and the eraser are custom made to fit to the back of the mc square and the back of the board is designed with hundreds of circles, which are compatible with toy building blocks. The magnets on the back of each square allow it to stick to almost any metal surface, making them versatile to use. We love the fact that the pen and eraser is contained within the design, so that you never misplace them!

Silver Lining For A Cause

mc squares is currently in its Kickstarter phase, and as part of the reward of backing them … for every square bought, at any donation level, they will be matching the backing and sending the same amount of squares backed to a educational institution of your choice, and in your name.

As Franco says, “We truly believe in community, and this is one way we can give back to the community. It has been pretty awesome to see how kids have used the prototypes we have sent out to a couple area schools.”

To know more about how you can make a difference in a positive light and backing the project, head here.

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Designer: Anthony Franco [ Buy it Here ]

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