Wall-mounted Life displays

[markgritter]

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has released a kit for a 8-LED module that implements Conway's Life. You can plug larger numbers of modules together to create a large display. I've thought on and off about building a similar design (and even did some prototyping) based on LED matrix displays, so I think this is a very cool project

Comments

[timprov]

For that money and at that cell size, you could probably build a mechanical Life wall running on a Babbage engine.

[tiger_spot]

I WANT IT.

[markgritter]

Both these designs use a global synchronization signal, but it seems feasible to build each module as a self-contained unit. There is a relatively simple transformation of any synchronous CA into an asynchronous version with the same behavior