My Music Cube ( 3D RGB color LED Cube 8x8x8 )

This is my first try to get something out of my 8x8x8 RGB LED cube. I build the cube using a pre-release version of a kit from hypnocube.com. That required soldering more than 500 LED's (that is 57 times more than for the popular 3x3x3 cube but less than the impressive monochrome 10 x 10 x 10 cube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMgoNGlIY0 )) as regular as possible.

The nice black case (hard to see in the video) needed precise holes for the wires, so I did that in our local FABLAB (http://www.fablabgroningen.nl/). The music comes from Kevin Macleod (CC license, incompetech.com). The raw data comes from 3dleds.com. I converted their data to images and imported those in adobe premiere. There I could mix them any way I liked and change the colors. Next step was to render the result back to images and convert it back to a format I could send to my cube using my own tiny little program.
What didn't work very well is to record the movie using my photocamera. When making movies all settings are on automatic, causing the leds to be overexposed.
Next step is to make live animations matching the music.

1-nov-2011: just interfaced it with the kinect. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgtUwYGlEx8
17-nov-2011: added some walking lemmings. see http://youtu.be/EC2MzMsi1YM

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Groningen
• 1llus
• 3D
• LED
• RGB
• color
• cube
• 8x8x8
• animation
• hypnocube
• 3dleds
• music
• illus

[rumba1128]

me interesa aprender a crear algo asi! me podrias ayudar?

[1LLUS]

@rumba1128 I'm not sure what you want to learn, there is so much going on. Perhaps the keyword here is "multiplexing". Does that get you going?

[arm171]

is there any way we can get a copy of the program u made?

[1LLUS]

@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.

[TheMrGuest]

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?

[1LLUS]

@TheMrGuest just import them as raw data and specify the exact size.

[awesometastic187]

goodbye lava lamp, hello LED cube

[1LLUS]

@supallama Did you read the text belonging to the video? It explains a little bit about how it was done.

[ceyceyHD]

OMG AMAZING

[zaptor32]

10 years ago kids had lava lamps, today they have LED cubes :]

[zyberant]

If the led are transparent then you have a 3d display.

[bubthegreat1]

OMG, The BORG!!!!!!!!!!!