Everything is driven by an Arduino Pro Mini. The lights are APA106 LEDs; a 4-pin through-hole package version of the WS2812 pixels. You could easily substitute these for the surface mount ...

It’s called the Galileo, and it has everything you’d expect from a juiced-up Arduino running x86. The main chip is an Intel Quark SoC running at 400MHz with 256 MB of DRAM. On board is a Mini ...