Ideation

Through the ideation process, I looked online for different resources. I was inspired by Retromancers' cool UI that converts images to 8-bit graphics inspired by images. 

Digging through the existing Spotify API library, I read through the different features I could access using the Spotify developer platform. Developing this program wouldn't be as easy as simply hooking up an LED matrix and connecting it to Spotify. We would have to obtain proper authorization and API credentials in order to access user data. 

A "brief" overview of how the Spotify API manages requests for data

After some fighting with the API, I managed to get it to access my Spotify account information with the proper authorization. 

API accessing my Spotify account