The Ledsticker project aims to make a LED matrix controllable through USB. The
objective is to be able to glue the LED matrix to the back of a notebook lid and
program it to show static or animated drawings (which can even be generated from a
program), effectively turning it into a LED sticker.
A custom PCB was designed to have the LED matrix together with necessary components and a USB connector so it can be plugged to the computer. A command line application was also created to control the LED matrix through "stickers": plain-text files containing a sequence of commands to control the matrix.
My blog post goes into detail on the backstory of the project: https://nfraprado.gitlab.io/ledsticker-my-first-holistic-sw-hw-project.html
Software repository: https://gitlab.com/nfraprado/ledsticker
Hardware repository: https://gitlab.com/nfraprado/ledsticker-hw
PCB on OSHPark: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/MHbtuh9G