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We built a giant pixel wall for fun, but what we learnt went a lot further

Every tech company has side projects and Solid State is no different. It keeps devs motivated and flexes the bits of the brain sometimes not quite reached by day to day coding. Sometimes these side projects become products, sometimes we crack open a beer and ask “what the hell were we thinking”, but always we learn something - about the process, and perhaps ourselves. We’ve been deep in client software dev projects for months and decided the next internal project needed to be a physical thing - BUILD THE WALL we cried aloud. Well, in truth, we shouted this over Slack, until the pixel wall became a thing. As this thing took shape over the weeks I realised that despite all the cool tech, the late night coding and problem solving, it was never just about the wall. Here I’ve documented what we did, what we learnt and how I feel about the project.”

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