An interactive display made up of 5,880 arcade buttons that act as pixels and respond to touch.

Google wanted to build a playful display for their NYC lobby. A giant screen would have been easy, but touching a screen just isn’t that novel. So we went with something different: 5,880 light-up arcade buttons that act as pixels and respond to touch. The display reacts as you press buttons, rendering words, images, and designs. We engineered the wall using Google’s AnyPixel.js framework, an open-source software and hardware library that makes it possible to use the web to create big, unusual, interactive displays out of all kinds of things.