It is AWESOME!! Nowadays some people had lost the capacity of enjoy this wonderful things that only a few years ago would have been almost miracles !. Take your time to watch and think about all that is behind the creation of this incredible cube.
Tafarel Yan You are crazy if you write this by hand, of course you don't. There's many programs to make this easier by just clicking the leds you want to light up.
The Musterion Of Rock A friend of mine and I wrote the RGB LED cube code from scratch, although my circuit will also let you use run the code from Nick Schulze (ChipKit UNO32) and Kevin Darrah (Arduino) on the same main board. Honestly, you don't want to use programs to click-and-light on these cubes unless you are creating something like an animated walking man or some other irregular object. It's much easier and faster to code geometric animations by using formulae. If you'd like to learn more about my boards and projects, have a look at www.TheLEDCube.com - you can also order parts kits and the circuit boards. My first cube ever was the project by the author of the above video. I knew nothing of what the Arduino or ATMega32 processors were nor how to code them, but I saw CHR's project, and I had to have one. After success with my hand wired circuit, I saw so many people having so much trouble with building the circuit, I took it upon myself to learn all the ins and outs, and eventually made a PC Board that anyone could solder up in a couple hours to control it. Then came the base board - which meant we could throw out the measuring tapes and all but eliminated all the rest of the wires in the project. I keep going back to his original project to see if people need help understanding or building it. I will always love this thing. CHR seems to have moved on, but he has left behind a legacy that will live on for many years to come I am sure.
Because for every popular video there are people who find it and dislike it in an attempt to balance the ratio of dislikes to likes. If a video has dislikes it means it is popular.
Excelente propuesta. Es muy bueno el vídeo. Yo quisiera saber como obtener el kit completo para armarlo incluyendo el programa para quemarlo en los pics. Gracias por su publicación.
Read the article on Instructables. Whole thing is explained there. You'll only need to get yourself some parts. I'd recommend getting an Arduino to control this beast. Takes some work off your hands in builing a control board and can be connected through USB to program it or to send data to it.
11 лет назад
Thanks! I've just started my own 8x8x8 cube with 3mm LEDs. I went for 28 mm spacing, I guess that should be fine then.
Hello, I just finished assembling of 5x5x5 LED cube based on DM13A drivers, and now want to build the biggest one with RGB LEDs. As I see, practically all projects with big led cubes based on 74hc595 registers. Why do you use them? Using DM13A requires less resistors and work on assembling. Or there is some problems with using it in big cube? Thank you for the answer!
So what happens when a led in the middle burns out! lol great project though I would love to make one if I had 512 leds lieing around! Is it controlled by an arduino or directly connected to a computer?
buddy please tell me that what is the voltage rating of LEDs which you are using for this cube?? are those of 5 volts capacity? its urgent because i m this in my engineering project...please reply soon
@rlui123 I just bought 4000 LEDs for less than $60, so LED price is not an issue. MCUs are cheap (< $5 ), robot work is cheap (< $10 ), Vacuum formed stand < $2, the software is already available... Throw in another $30 for transportation etc. = $100 max even after your 2x markup. What would you pay for something like this?
Imagine making this out of RGB LEDs instead. You could render a tiny voxel model with it, using each voxel's color as your LED's. Or if you have enough money, time and devotion, you could go for 128^3.
Now what would be cool, is if it was able to be used as a 3D visualize to display peaks in the wavelengths of music noise. (Or basically a 3D VU meter).
At least prior to the patent reform last year, the US was on the first to invent system. In that system, whoever released the first documentation of the invention had the rights to the technology and that prevented others from swooping in and patenting others' inventions. With the reform, it is first to file; however, in most first to file systems, you need to file the patent within a year of the original prior art. Anyways, prior ART is also very important in considering if you can patent.
Hi everyone, i have aready finished led cube 8x8x8 with these instructable but it not work. I'm very disappointed... I don't know where it is wrong... :( Could you give me this project (sch files, layout files, source code, ...)?. I want to make this project again.. It's really difficult for me.. Please please help me.. Thank you so much...
hey everyone just wondering if you could point me in the right direction for the resistance for the pull up resistors on the avr board (transistor array) , i cant find any clear info on the instructables page. much appreciated and very nice build CHR =))
@rlui123 Actually, the link provided says it would cost $67 to make. The only "expensive" part is the LEDs, but if you look at eBay you will find that the Chinese sells a great deal of them for very low prices.
I'm just beginning Arduino and saw, read, reviewed your 4x4 and 8x8. Very CooL. I don't understand but wish to learn and understand the programming for lighting. Can we open some dialogue?
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12 лет назад
RGB leds are a bit expensive (especially in this amount) and complex to control (basically x3 LEDs) bit it would be very interesting with multicolor mode :) But for sure, it's nice too. Nice work.
