Daniel Gilbert shared his awesome project called “The Frame” on hackaday.io. It consists of BlinkStick Pro, Adafruit Neopixel 8x8 matrix, IKEA RIBBA Frame and some black foam rubber. Daniel describes his project:
“The Frame” is a simple-to-build, yet powerful display, which allows you to display some simple information or do some awesome stuff on it. It’s designed as a companion screen to your computer. Read more…
There is a tutorial I’ve written which describes how to connect the Adafruit 8x8 Neopixel matrix to BlinkStick Pro. I love the professional look and with 64 LEDs there is quite a bit of notifications that can be displayed.
Daniel created a Github repository for the software which runs the LEDs. It currently implements a binary watch and spectrum analyser, but I look forward to seeing him extend this project with more plugins!