@arm171 It's too easy. Basically it writes a file 20 times a second. That file is being displayed. How to create the data is described in the text belonging to the youtube movie.
Very impressive. Well done! And thanks for taking the time to share it on you tube. How did you convert the data to images and imported those images in adobe premiere?
good job with the cube man but i would like to say with only 8x8x8 i think you loose a lot of the effect of the changing patterns. I do understand this would take tons of work my point is i guess that it would be really cool if someone (a company) built a massive one to be used in venues like a tiesto concert or something!
@TheTycarroll 8x8x8 is already 512 LEDs that has to be soldered together with 4 pins each. It is just a lot of work. 10x10x10 is RGB is already twice the amount of work.
But they actually make such monsters. search for cubitron 2009 on youtube. Or they make them out of LEDstrips, but those strips are pretty wide and you loose a lot of the transparency of the cube.
Hi, I just wanted to say that this video has inspired me to create my own RGB cube. Its just awesome! I've wanted to know which microcontroller are you using to control this cube? was it an atemega chip? Did u use a pic microcontroller? Gumstix? something else? thanks
@bbillp I didn't make a movie from it, but I did make some pictures of the jig. Basically it are free standing planes of 8x8 led's. per row one common connection is soldered to a tiny steel rod, which goes down to the base through another steel rod. Per column there are three steel rods to which the RGB pins of each led are soldered. In the base I used female connection pins, so each rod is pushed in one of those pins. The rest is in the manual.
Good work on this one!!! You should enter the Nuts & Volts "LED Madness" contest on Facebook. There looking for people to upload a short video of their own LED projects and the top 3 videos with the most votes wins. Just search for Nuts & Volts Magazine on Facebook or visit their site and you'll see a banner at the bottom of the page to enter the contest. I think you might have a good chance with this project. :)
I Will love you forever if you make a tutorial on how to do this. I'm new to the LED animating thing and would really appreciate some tips on how to get started doing stuff like this.
@00Neven I never had seen Trine before. The game videos still look very good. I'm bit surprised that you think it is from Trine, as the audio artist of that game says on the internet:
"I have composed and performed all the songs by myself. I'm using Logic Studio for the compositions. All the original instruments were played by myself on a midi keyboard, and some of the real instruments were played by other musicians. "
@fbonacic You don't need a lot of creativity but you do need quit a lot of patience :-). I looked at your youtube videos. Did you make that awesome nixie clock yourself?? it looks great!
Awesome Job !!! I didn't have the patience to make one from scratch ... got a pre-built / programmed 4x4x4 from Hi-Tech Art instead ... your 8x8x8 resolution would be amazing to animate.
@tend2it thanks. And yes, you need a lot of patience to make a 8x8x8 cube, but it looks amazing. Making my own content takes time though. Perhaps next winter.
Ziet er gruwelijk uit!!! Maar hoe moeilijk is het op zoiets te maken? Kan wel een beetje solderen maar weet verder weinig nog van het programmeren van de cube.
En is lees dat veel mensen de arduino gebruiken, maar neem aan dat er wel een goedkopere chip kan nemen toch?
@TheChameleon2008 actually not, there is no arduino used in this cube, but a more powerful chip (sparkfun com/products/8971 with 32 bit processing). This is not the most expensive bit. There are 512 rgb leds in this cube, that's what makes it expensive.
@teh1337storm if you made it really big, put a mouse in the center, aim 4 cameras at this mouse, you will get something like 4 images of a mouse displayed somewhere on the cube. Doesn't look like a hologram to me.
Now if you use a lot a transparent leds you could display a 3d object in the cube (no cameras needed). I would love to make a pile of 512 transparent oled screens to build such a volumerenderer.
wow really slick! very nice:) great looking patterns too! that's what i'm struggling with at the moment:) Did you get source code with this? I recognize the 3dleds animations, but the one at the start is great!
@vespine No, no fancy source code (besides conversion from 3dleds format to the one I needed (a series of rgb values). The one in the beginning is basically on the outside a frame from the explosion blended together with in the middle a beginning of an explosion followed with the same thing playing backwards. All the cutting, pasting, changing colors, blending etc was done in adobe premiere (not of the video shown here, but of the data used to drive the animation).
@vespine I just finished reading your blog. Great work! I'm impressed with the 12 bit capabilities. Mine does with a lot of wishful thinking 8 bits, but in reality it is closer to 6 (not as good as yours ;-))
@1LLUS pfft, don't kid yourself! your cube looks awesome:) really smooth, that's the most important part.. I actually think 12 bit for a 8x8x8 cube running a 30fps or 50fps is overkill, it actually gets TOTALLY lost just in the rasterization anyway.
@vespine but with 12 bits you get a way better range of possible colors. That is very good for anti-aliasing and I like patterns that go smoothly from one pixel to the next, instead of jumping.
@1LLUS hmm, it's a bit complicated but I don't actually think it makes so much difference. except for the 1st animation, which I think is an artifact, i don't see any jumping on your cube. I tried playing 8 bit and 12 bit animations on my cube and it really doesn't make a noticeable difference. If an animation is playing 30fps, it only needs 30 brightness values for what is happening in that second, whether those 30 brightness values are 8 bit or 12 actually makes NO difference. :)
@vespine no, there is hardly any jumping, but that is because the animations are kind of antialiased already. If you were to animate a moving 3x3x3 cube from one corner in your cube to the other, you could do that in a few steps. That goes very quickly or in clearly visible steps. If you want to go it slowly, you have to be able to show that cube kind of half way in between your grid, using half the intensity for partialy covered leds. You need more bits to do that, or the color changes.
@1LLUS I know what yr talking about but it doesn't make as much difference as you think. Trust me, cubesense has 4k colors per LED and it looks fantastic. If you have 8bit/channel, you have "thousands" of colors, at 30 fps it would take TWO MINUTES just to play a frame of each! lol.. trust me for animations that "loop" in just 20, 30 sec, even a minute, doesn't matter HOW slow, 8bit is FINE! you wont skip frames.
@vespine I'm not talking about looping over colors, but interpolating positions, and be able to maintain the color. But anyway, even my 6 bit looks very cool and I'm happy with it.
is there any way we can get a copy of the program u made?
arm171 18 hours ago
@arm171 It's too easy. Basically it writes a file 20 times a second. That file is being displayed. How to create the data is described in the text belonging to the youtube movie.
1LLUS 2 hours ago
Very impressive. Well done! And thanks for taking the time to share it on you tube. How did you convert the data to images and imported those images in adobe premiere?
TheMrGuest 1 week ago
@TheMrGuest just import them as raw data and specify the exact size.
1LLUS 1 week ago
10 years ago kids had lava lamps, today they have LED cubes :]
zaptor32 3 weeks ago
If the led are transparent then you have a 3d display.
zyberant 1 month ago
OMG, The BORG!!!!!!!!!!!
bubthegreat1 1 month ago
fantastic build - I'm gonna make one
klassklassklass 1 month ago
How do you make the change of colors?
LUXO2 1 month ago
@LUXO2 It's described in the text belonging to the video (select more info on youtube)
1LLUS 1 month ago
WHOA...... *nice*
allenelwood 1 month ago
Congratulations! Nice work!
marciopmm 1 month ago
You should see the one at Burning Man.
CrossSidhe 2 months ago
Very well done, enjoyed the video :)
Wabbit0789 2 months ago
I would buy this.
JoshDDiebold 2 months ago
@JoshDDiebold you can! Well almost at hypnocube
1LLUS 2 months ago
просто супер
JuliAngelLily 2 months ago
Wow, this is very impressive. Did you make and program this yourself?
samgab 2 months ago
@samgab using a kit I build and programmed it myself
1LLUS 2 months ago
best led cude colours by far on youtube
billynightmare 2 months ago
good job with the cube man but i would like to say with only 8x8x8 i think you loose a lot of the effect of the changing patterns. I do understand this would take tons of work my point is i guess that it would be really cool if someone (a company) built a massive one to be used in venues like a tiesto concert or something!
TheTycarroll 3 months ago
@TheTycarroll 8x8x8 is already 512 LEDs that has to be soldered together with 4 pins each. It is just a lot of work. 10x10x10 is RGB is already twice the amount of work.
But they actually make such monsters. search for cubitron 2009 on youtube. Or they make them out of LEDstrips, but those strips are pretty wide and you loose a lot of the transparency of the cube.
1LLUS 3 months ago
i love music :D
stephaniecamps 3 months ago
Hi, I just wanted to say that this video has inspired me to create my own RGB cube. Its just awesome! I've wanted to know which microcontroller are you using to control this cube? was it an atemega chip? Did u use a pic microcontroller? Gumstix? something else? thanks
RmnceKng 4 months ago
@RmnceKng it uses an older version of a pic32mx795 (available from sparkfun ,com)
1LLUS 3 months ago
@1LLUS thanks i appreciate the reply, and the details of the chip.
RmnceKng 3 months ago
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RmnceKng 4 months ago
goodbye lava lamp, hello LED cube
awesometastic187 4 months ago 26
Pretty!!
bliglum 4 months ago
This reminds me of The Nut Cracker in ballet theater. I like it. :) The drops kind of made me jump though. :o
XTechnoCh1ckX 4 months ago
Dude, This just made me cry.... lol BRAVO
mdizzle1369 5 months ago
How much you payed for the RGB's?
Maximinators 5 months ago
wwooowwwww beautyfulllllll.
ludobiko6 5 months ago
what program did you use to light the LED's? what programs can I use to make the LED's do this kind of thing?
supallama 5 months ago
@supallama Did you read the text belonging to the video? It explains a little bit about how it was done.
1LLUS 5 months ago 2
Okay, I must ask, where did you source your LED's from? I can't see any way 512 RGB LED's would come cheap.
Thermoelectric7 5 months ago
@Thermoelectric7 They didn't came cheap s:)
1LLUS 5 months ago
@1LLUS Thought so. How did you drive these? Address each column of LED's and switch their common aswell?
Thermoelectric7 5 months ago
@Thermoelectric7 indeed, see, the comment I made in respons of bbillp a few day ago.
1LLUS 5 months ago
Nice display, I'd like to see how the cube is constructed.
bbillp 5 months ago
@bbillp I didn't make a movie from it, but I did make some pictures of the jig. Basically it are free standing planes of 8x8 led's. per row one common connection is soldered to a tiny steel rod, which goes down to the base through another steel rod. Per column there are three steel rods to which the RGB pins of each led are soldered. In the base I used female connection pins, so each rod is pushed in one of those pins. The rest is in the manual.
1LLUS 5 months ago
SOUNDS LIKE KINGDOM HEARTS!!!
idkjustin 6 months ago
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Good work on this one!!! You should enter the Nuts & Volts "LED Madness" contest on Facebook. There looking for people to upload a short video of their own LED projects and the top 3 videos with the most votes wins. Just search for Nuts & Volts Magazine on Facebook or visit their site and you'll see a banner at the bottom of the page to enter the contest. I think you might have a good chance with this project. :)
Endaman07 6 months ago
I Will love you forever if you make a tutorial on how to do this. I'm new to the LED animating thing and would really appreciate some tips on how to get started doing stuff like this.
Lyrext 6 months ago
whats the song from? i know it from somewhere
Solbera 6 months ago
@Solbera The music is from Kevin Macleod (incompetech com)
1LLUS 6 months ago
@1LLUS Do you know the name of the song or in witch game/movie was the song played?
00Neven 4 months ago
@00Neven The music is from Kevin Macleod (incompetech com)
1LLUS 4 months ago
@1LLUS I know that the artist is Kevin Macleod, but do you know maybe the title (name) of the song?
00Neven 4 months ago
@00Neven the title of the music is 'exciting trailer'
1LLUS 4 months ago
@1LLUS AAAAAA!!! Thank you! It's from the game called Trine. Now I can sleep
00Neven 4 months ago
@00Neven I never had seen Trine before. The game videos still look very good. I'm bit surprised that you think it is from Trine, as the audio artist of that game says on the internet:
"I have composed and performed all the songs by myself. I'm using Logic Studio for the compositions. All the original instruments were played by myself on a midi keyboard, and some of the real instruments were played by other musicians. "
1LLUS 4 months ago
Great and impressive job you done here man! really a special thing, you are very creative and patient when you build that!
fbonacic 6 months ago
@fbonacic You don't need a lot of creativity but you do need quit a lot of patience :-). I looked at your youtube videos. Did you make that awesome nixie clock yourself?? it looks great!
1LLUS 6 months ago
Awesome Job !!! I didn't have the patience to make one from scratch ... got a pre-built / programmed 4x4x4 from Hi-Tech Art instead ... your 8x8x8 resolution would be amazing to animate.
tend2it 7 months ago
@tend2it thanks. And yes, you need a lot of patience to make a 8x8x8 cube, but it looks amazing. Making my own content takes time though. Perhaps next winter.
1LLUS 7 months ago
Ziet er gruwelijk uit!!! Maar hoe moeilijk is het op zoiets te maken? Kan wel een beetje solderen maar weet verder weinig nog van het programmeren van de cube.
En is lees dat veel mensen de arduino gebruiken, maar neem aan dat er wel een goedkopere chip kan nemen toch?
TheChameleon2008 10 months ago
@TheChameleon2008 actually not, there is no arduino used in this cube, but a more powerful chip (sparkfun com/products/8971 with 32 bit processing). This is not the most expensive bit. There are 512 rgb leds in this cube, that's what makes it expensive.
1LLUS 10 months ago
Now I had an idea, and back me up on this if you agree that it's a good idea.
Take the setup of these LEDs in this box formation, but make it REALLY BIG
then set up 4 cameras pointing into 1 spot.
Make the box play the video that the cameras show.
HOLOGRAM.
teh1337storm 10 months ago
@teh1337storm if you made it really big, put a mouse in the center, aim 4 cameras at this mouse, you will get something like 4 images of a mouse displayed somewhere on the cube. Doesn't look like a hologram to me.
Now if you use a lot a transparent leds you could display a 3d object in the cube (no cameras needed). I would love to make a pile of 512 transparent oled screens to build such a volumerenderer.
1LLUS 10 months ago
@1LLUS that would be sick.
teh1337storm 10 months ago
wow really slick! very nice:) great looking patterns too! that's what i'm struggling with at the moment:) Did you get source code with this? I recognize the 3dleds animations, but the one at the start is great!
vespine 1 year ago
@vespine No, no fancy source code (besides conversion from 3dleds format to the one I needed (a series of rgb values). The one in the beginning is basically on the outside a frame from the explosion blended together with in the middle a beginning of an explosion followed with the same thing playing backwards. All the cutting, pasting, changing colors, blending etc was done in adobe premiere (not of the video shown here, but of the data used to drive the animation).
1LLUS 1 year ago
@vespine I just finished reading your blog. Great work! I'm impressed with the 12 bit capabilities. Mine does with a lot of wishful thinking 8 bits, but in reality it is closer to 6 (not as good as yours ;-))
1LLUS 1 year ago
@1LLUS pfft, don't kid yourself! your cube looks awesome:) really smooth, that's the most important part.. I actually think 12 bit for a 8x8x8 cube running a 30fps or 50fps is overkill, it actually gets TOTALLY lost just in the rasterization anyway.
vespine 1 year ago
@vespine but with 12 bits you get a way better range of possible colors. That is very good for anti-aliasing and I like patterns that go smoothly from one pixel to the next, instead of jumping.
1LLUS 1 year ago
@1LLUS hmm, it's a bit complicated but I don't actually think it makes so much difference. except for the 1st animation, which I think is an artifact, i don't see any jumping on your cube. I tried playing 8 bit and 12 bit animations on my cube and it really doesn't make a noticeable difference. If an animation is playing 30fps, it only needs 30 brightness values for what is happening in that second, whether those 30 brightness values are 8 bit or 12 actually makes NO difference. :)
vespine 1 year ago
@vespine no, there is hardly any jumping, but that is because the animations are kind of antialiased already. If you were to animate a moving 3x3x3 cube from one corner in your cube to the other, you could do that in a few steps. That goes very quickly or in clearly visible steps. If you want to go it slowly, you have to be able to show that cube kind of half way in between your grid, using half the intensity for partialy covered leds. You need more bits to do that, or the color changes.
1LLUS 1 year ago
@1LLUS I know what yr talking about but it doesn't make as much difference as you think. Trust me, cubesense has 4k colors per LED and it looks fantastic. If you have 8bit/channel, you have "thousands" of colors, at 30 fps it would take TWO MINUTES just to play a frame of each! lol.. trust me for animations that "loop" in just 20, 30 sec, even a minute, doesn't matter HOW slow, 8bit is FINE! you wont skip frames.
vespine 1 year ago
@vespine I'm not talking about looping over colors, but interpolating positions, and be able to maintain the color. But anyway, even my 6 bit looks very cool and I'm happy with it.
1LLUS 1 year ago
*jelous* i want one.
sabrina4455 1 year ago
Good device and good camcorder.
3dleds 1 year ago
Ziet er erg goed uit. Waar een FabLab al niet goed voor is ;-)
Kan niet wachten tot er meer komt.
Als je dit nu combineert met een 3D face scanner. Dan kun je een 3D video conference houden.
turtlecreati01 1 year ago
Awesome! Keep the vids coming!
ericwout 1 year ago