After seeing that a single MT8816 would work, I wanted to make sure you could route a connection through 2 of them and still have a reasonably good connection. Because using a single 32x32 crosspoint wasn't gonna happen, I think they actually might exist (it's been a while since I looked into it), but they're in the few hundred dollar range per chip, and they're generally for HDMI switching so they don't really have the qualities you'd want in a general purpose analog switch.
I also wanted to make it not take up the whole breadboard so I could actually test it on real things.
Disclaimer: what I wrote above is a lie, the real reason I made this is because I had just discovered the joys of wire-wrap wire and I needed an excuse to use it.
What follows is basically a slideshow of me building this thing.
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This is the pinout for the rows of wires going to the Arduino Nano Every
Control Lines (top to bottom) (left side of board)
CS A
DAT A
STB A
RST AB
CS B
DAT B
STB B
Vdd +
Vss GND
Vee -
Address Lines (left to right) (bottom of board)
Y0 A
Y1 A
Y2 A
X0 A
X1 A
X2 A
X3 A
Y0 B
Y1 B
Y2 B
X0 B
X1 B
X2 B
X3 B
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