Evil Mad Science, the same company behind the Meggy Jr. fully programmable LED handheld that I'm so fond of posting about, is now selling Peggy 2 Light Emitting Pegboard kits. This new model is based on the original "Peggy", a programmable pegboard display accommodating up to 625 LEDs, but adds support for simple animation capability and Arduino compatibility.

EMS has a few ideas for Peggy 2's potential uses:

"Like its predecessor, Peggy 2 provides a quick, easy, powerful and efficient way to drive a lot of LEDs ... in a big matrix covering almost a square foot of area. You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky valentine for your sweetie, one bad-ass birthday card, freak the holy bejesus out of Boston, or instigate the next generation of low-pixel-count video games. Your call. It's a versatile, high-brightness display. How you configure it and what you do with it is up to you."

EMS sells the kits for $95, batteries and LEDs not included. If the Peggy 2 doesn't sound like it gives you enough room to work with for the project you have in mind, remember that "multiple Peggy 2 boards can be set side by side to have a visually continuous field of LEDs without gaps between them."

Here's a video demonstrating the Peggy 2's animation in action (with "2x2 super-pixels consisting of red, green, blue, and white 10 mm LEDs"):