Borg 3D color

Fancy lightshow!
The Borg3D color is a 3-dimensional cube consisting of 5x5x5 RGB LEDs. It is able to produce a variety of effects and is controlled by an FPGA emulating a ATmega microcontroller.
The Borg 3D color has been built in Das LABOR, Bochum, Germany (www.das-labor.org).

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• borg
• 3D
• BlinkenBorg
• labor
• bochum
• FPGA
• Atmel
• ATmega
• RGB
• LED
• cube
• 23C3

[DarkDesire1974]

Very nice !

But wy did you have this cube controlled by an "FPGA emulating a ATmega microcontroller" ? You could have controlled this cube directly by an ATmega microcontroller. It probably would have been easier to program all the effects no ?

[lit42]

There is no ATmega that is fast enough to do this. Way to many bit per color channel and fps needed to see a fluent animation

[jerms88]

After the first 5 seconds, I got a mental image of a bunch of break dancing borgs . . . lol

[TheAcidisTurningOnMe]

Setup Micro-LEDs and produce an 3D images :)

[noregretsstyle]

Hope you gave the credits of the music to SGX.

The song name is "Coactive".

jamendo.com/it/artist/sgx

[marcosbonetti11]

make it really big, watch it from far away, got your first primitive real 3D TV... miniaturize it, got your next generation home user real 3D TV

[shottieflame]

this just looks like christmas lights to me

[theodor23]

@SlashVe

It's a matrix display: At each point in time, only a single 2d plane is active. That way you only need 3*25=75 IO-lines for the 25 RGB LEDs in a plane. Plus 5 to activate the planes.

So you need to time-multiplex the different planes.

But that way you only have binary on/off behaviour per LED per frame. To get intermediate brightness, you only activate a LED every e.g. n-th cycle.

Long story short: IIRC the cube operates with > 50 kilo planes per second....

[Moercstar]

It looks so good that it becomes not nerdy at all! :-D

[freerider4316]

I want one!!XD

[metricmotors]

can you sell this?