Lifelong experience with analog and digital electronics, LEDs, microcontrollers, Familiar with Arduino. Your project does something different, unusual. That makes it interesting. Explain in more detail what the display does, if there are any user controls such as reset, +/- to adjust it. The LED portion may be very simple, or may need a boost with transistors - how bright? The source code would be fairly simple - counters and twiddling output pins.