22 March 2016 Last updated at 00:22 GMT
The project was the idea of a BBC Learning employee and was carried out by Kitronik - an electronics kit-maker - which is another partner in the computer education project.
The animations were coded using Touch Develop software and involved passing data from one Micro Bit to another in order to produce a maximum frame rate of 12 frames per second.
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One thousand and nine Micro Bit mini-computers have been linked together to create a large screen that can display messages and graphics.