Perler beads, the plastic cylindrical beads that ... All you have to do next is recreate the pattern or pixel art you’re mimicking with a one-to-one ratio and place the beads on the board.

[Jon Wilson] sent in an awesome bead pattern generator that takes those color images of video game sprites – and just about any other picture – and translates them into Perler bead patterns.

The most common examples of Perler art you’ll find online are recreations of 16-bit video game pixel art, and it can take hours to lay out all the colored beads into the appropriate pattern by hand.