RGB LED cube 8x8x8

[youssefj98]

Cool project

[sk8erbails]

chuck norris heart when he dances

[runningshoe1000]

I have the money...when can we expect to be able to buy them?

[destrierofdark]

4.096 LEDs? Neat.

[bravewolfify]

cool

[Krondelo]

Some day when I have money and time I will make one ;) very cool.

[erichertsens]

nice job :-), congrads

[TheDiscoLux]

Красиво

[ZArFALKBEER]

I hope that someone soon try to conect some i7 porcesors just like this 3d led array, then whe will see what are the real multiprocesing, lol

maybe the litle 3x3x3 arrays could be enough for insane home pc users (aka gamers), lol,and 8x8x8 cubes wisely used by universities and research centers, even could conduce to the creation of the "visioned" sci-fic brains conceived by Isaac Asimov as "positronic brains"

[Splooshiba]

what?.. just.. what?

[speerwerp92]

nice job

[jesusRules4eva]

Does anyone know where I could Find rgb leds that have two prongs instead of 4? I have been looking and cannot find them eventhough I see millions of people that have them I cant seam to get a source! so if you know please message me! thanks

[skierplaterandy]

ummm..... they dont really exist.

two prongs are 1 color leds dude. positive and negitive.

[komokaziboschetti]

but they DO exist, but they have built in microcontrollers.

the 2 prong rgb leds can't really be controlled by external microcontrollers

[skierplaterandy]

ya, but if its 2 prong then it can only use the pattern built into it, if you try to control it you would just reset it. so what is the point?

[morq13]

They do exsist, u have to give differnt voltage for the colores.

Its easyer and cheaper to work with 4 prongs

[skierplaterandy]

but then they would need internal volt regulators, because otherwise the light would vary.

[Lokivoid]

if your refering to two pin rainbow LED, nope there not controllable they run on a preset color sequence controlled by the IC inside the diode. Varying voltage on them will only controll the brightness not the color. Rainbow led's are allso more expensive compaired to four pin RBG's of the same lux output.

[aktechfreak]

Well if it was i2c then you could program it but it would still have 4 for power... Hmmmmm well i know bi-color leds you reverse the polarity and then it switches color (because leds have polarity)

[skierplaterandy]

they are called rainbow type.

but you cant control the color so it is completely pointless!

[kaosSCOOTERteam]

nice so sick

[YouMockMe]

bad azz! I like how you made it look semi-natural with the drag on the edges.. nice touch, a new kind of classy if I do say so.

[minyman60]

3d snake lol

[puddypuddypuddy]

where do yoiu get these from?

[skierplaterandy]

get what? he built it. the lights themselves can be bought at online electronics stores.

[Splooshiba]

there are some kits, but hes right, they need to be built

try googling hypnocube

[ZyphyrOfTheWinds]

You sir, are a god among men. Or techies.

[hilers72652]

these could be the future of 3-d video interface.

[celisluis]

Hello I congratulate you on your work of verda it(he,she) is brilliant(genial) and very interesting, me gustaria to arm(assemble) the equal one, is posibe to construct them you do not have schemes or something paginates someone wed or a mail, me gustaria to make one equal to this, thank you.

[draxos]

So Cool.. Do you have Schematic .. ??

What uController will be good enough to give processing power... ??

[eduxas0]

No, i don't have the schematics; but i do have PCB design files :) dspic30f4011 has got enough horsepower to control all 512 rgb leds. But since i wanted this cube to have usb interface, i've also used pic18f4550 for communication with pc.

[quackmaster7000]

HOLY SHIT MAN!!! How long did it take you to do that? What micro did you use? And OMG I bet that was expensive! did you charlieplex/multiplex and/or use shift registers?

[eduxas0]

After i decided to build something like this it's been about 4-5 months until i was finally staring at the working thing. I've used two microcontrollers: pic18f4550 (for the usb interface) and dspic30f4011 (to handle all the multiplexing and PWM related math stuff). The budget was somewhere aroung 400$ :) And yes, i've used multiplexing and a bunch of shift registers (with serial-in, serial/parallel-out) as well.

[manneke150]

And, uhm, why do you say that Cheese?

I think you suck cause you can't make them yourself.

And youre name is yummy btw.

[sharkyigor]

can something like this be bought as a kit?

[eduxas0]

I've seen someone on the web selling smaller versions (4*4*4) of led cubes. Don't know anything about the availability of the kits for RGB cubes of this size. And at the moment i'm not selling them either :)

[nordahl154]

nice lol