Hi Max, sorry, happy to help out a bit on this forum, but I don’t have time otherwise.
It might be helpful if you explain what you’re trying to do. Also your level of experience with electronics and programming.
If it’s the electronics you’re struggling with then perhaps an all in 1 item would be better, something like this Galactic Unicorn (Pico W Aboard) | Pimoroni PIM631 | Core Electronics Australia? It’s not 16x32, but rather 53x11 (more LEDs, but different aspect ratio), you can, probably, just plug it in, flash the firmware (https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/releases/download/v1.19.14/pimoroni-picow_galactic_unicorn-v1.19.14-micropython.uf2), and start coding in thonny. They also have a bunch of examples over here pimoroni-pico/micropython/examples/galactic_unicorn at main · pimoroni/pimoroni-pico · GitHub to get you started
