HOWTO make an LED tank-top that plays the Game of Life

Here's step-by-step instructions for building a computer-controlled LED tank-top. The model on display is displaying output from the classic Game of Life, in which an ecosystem is modelled and simulated, with the outcomes of mutation and evolution displayed in pixels on a board.

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(Thanks, Chris!)

Update: Martijn sez, "The Game of Life is not actually about mutation. It could be considered to be about evolution, though not darwinian evolution – no natural selection is involved either – just in the sense of having an evolving universe.

"Conway's Life is a simple mathematical universe that allows surprisingly complicated structures to exist and indeed, evolve. In a big enough grid one could, in theory, build a universal computer, so as an environment it's pretty powerful for having such simple rules. Still, it's a simulation more analogous to physics than it is to biology, even though the name would suggest otherwise."