4x4x4 LED Shield

[chebe]

You know the story; you go into Maplins for solder, and you walk out with an LED Cube Shield. (It can't be just me.) Anyway, building one of these yokes seems to have become a kind of rite of passage for the makery sort. So, I made one!

The instructions weren't all that clear, but luckily there's a wiki with zoomable colour photos.

LEDs all bent into shape
Photo by chebe

Layer One, viewed from top
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Not so straight LED Cube, completed
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Pretty!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hard to program ?
tdr

[chebe]

I can't say I've tried yet. Just been using the sample ino. But it looks like a larger version of what I did for my LED matrix top; basically giant arrays of on/off. Could probably do up a nicer interface for easier design of animations...

[vatine]

Nice!

[chebe]

Thank you, thank you. I'm thinking of putting in a thing and making it a fancy lamp of ambient notifications.

[vatine]

That sounds like an eminently good idea. And having a 4x4x4 array should let you have an assortment of non-colour for EVEN MORE status in a glance.