RGB LED cube 8x8x8

Main technical characteristics:
512 RGB LEDs capable of displaying 4096 colors each
Frame rate: 60Hz
Refresh rate: 60Hz
Animations streamed from the PC via USB

Schematics are available now under Creative Commons 3.0 at http://lumisense.com

The development of this project is continued. Many new features will come with a second revision. Please visit the site above for more information and updates.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 3d
• rgb
• led
• cube
• 8x8x8
• 8*8*8
• lighting
• effect
• display
• animation
• electronics

[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.

[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 :)

[TheDiscoLux]

Красиво

[sk8erbails]

chuck norris heart when he dances

[youssefj98]

Cool project

[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

[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.