{"id":439290,"date":"2017-11-10T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=439290"},"modified":"2020-11-12T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T21:07:38","slug":"microsoft-expressive-pixels","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/microsoft-expressive-pixels\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Expressive Pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The need to express oneself is innate for every person in the world, and its roots run through art, technology, communication, and the acts of learning and building things from the ground up. It\u2019s no coincidence, then, that a new platform being released by Microsoft Research, called Microsoft Expressive Pixels, stems from this belief.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-688899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2017\/11\/EPXHome-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot of Microsoft Expressive Pixels app home screen\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2017\/11\/EPXHome-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2017\/11\/EPXHome-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2017\/11\/EPXHome-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2017\/11\/EPXHome-1536x984.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2017\/11\/EPXHome.jpg 1794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Expressive Pixels introduces an authoring app combined with open-source firmware, peripherals, documentation, and APIs that allow users and makers to create animations and then display them on a range of colorful LED display devices. With implications in areas spanning from accessibility to productivity, creativity, and education, the technology\u2019s potential for growth is limited only by the imaginations of its users and community\u2014and the app can now be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/store\/r\/9MTC56W1RXQH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">downloaded for free<\/a> from the Microsoft store.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/aka.ms\/expressivepixels\">Learn about Expressive Pixels and available resources ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/enable\/\">Learn about the Enable Group in Microsoft Research ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/microsoft-hands-free-music\/\">Explore all Hands-Free Music projects ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expressive Pixels introduces an authoring app combined with open-source firmware, peripherals, documentation, and APIs that allow users and makers to create animations and then display them on a range of colorful LED display devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":689118,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[243062,13554],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-439290","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-audio-acoustics","msr-research-area-human-computer-interaction","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"","related-publications":[],"related-downloads":[689298],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Ann Paradiso","user_id":31045,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"annpar"},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Bernice You","user_id":688608,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Dwayne Lamb","user_id":467226,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Stacie Stutz","user_id":688530,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":""},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"ThuVan Pham","user_id":34038,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"thuvanp"},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Christopher O\u2019Dowd","user_id":548874,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":""}],"msr_research_lab":[199565],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/439290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/439290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689163,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/439290\/revisions\/689163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=439290"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=439290"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=439290"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=439290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}