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Flowerboard LED cube
Here’s a neat 4x4x4 LED cube made with an ElecFreaks Flower Protoboard. A few days ago, we posted a neat new prototyping board made specifically for SMD work. Instead of the usual ‘holes-with-circles’...
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The best LED cube build we’ve seen
[Nick] wrote in telling us about the LED cube he built over the course of six months. He calls LED cubes ‘done to death,’ but [Nick] might be too humble. His 8x8x8 RGB LED cube is the best we’ve ever...
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Simulating LED cubes in Blender
The Jyväskylä, Finland hackerspace hacklab-jlk was lucky enough to work on a public arts project for their home town. They had the opportunity to design, build, and install a trio of LED cubes in...
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4096 LEDs means the biggest LED cube ever
Adaptive Computing, a cloud management and high performance computing outfit in Utah, needed something really cool to bring to their trade shows. Something that makes order out of chaos, and...
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8x8x8 LED cube and the board that drives it
Check out the LED cube which [Thomas], [Max], and [Felix] put together. But don’t forget to look at that beautiful PCB which drives it… nice! But hardware is only part of what goes into a project like...
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7x7x7 LED cube driven by Arduino mega
Sure, the physical build itself looks great, but it’s what [Michael] did with the firmware that impresses us the most. He’s using an Arduino Mega to drive the 7x7x7 cube and manages to squeeze out...
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Hackaday Links: Sunday, June 9th, 2013
This week we saw an interesting animated motorcycle tail light over on Reddit. But there wasn’t really enough background to get its own feature. The NeuroKnitting project captures brainwaves by...
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Tiny 3x3x3 SMD LED Cube
LED cubes are cool, but they’re usually pretty big and clunky. [One49th] set out to make one of the smallest LED cubes we’ve seen yet, and he’s shared how he did it in his Instructable! His first LED...
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8X8X8 Cube Invaders
Believe it or not, [Anred Zynch] had no soldering skills before starting this project! What we’re looking at here is an 8x8x8 LED cube set up as a Space Invaders style game with a Playstation 1...
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Gaming on an 8x8x8 LED Cube
Building an LED cube is a great way to learn how to solder, while building something that looks awesome. Without any previous experience with soldering or coding, [Anred] set out to create a simple...
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L3D Cube Takes the Work out of Building an LED Cube
Building an LED cube usually means a heck of a lot of delicate soldering work. Bending jigs, assembly jigs, and lots of patience are the name of the game. The problem multiplies if you want to build...
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Hackaday Links: February 1, 2015
It’s Sunday evening, and that means Hackaday Links, and that means something crowdfunded. This week it’s UberBlox. It’s a modular construction system based on Al extrusion – basically a modern version...
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Glowing LED Cubes From The Future
Sometimes people don’t believe you when you tell them something. You may have to go out of your way to convince those skeptics. Well, [AlexTheGreat] was having a hard time convincing people that he was...
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Building The World’s Smallest RGB LED Cube
What’s the smallest RGB LED cube? A 1x1x1 cube is easy, but it’s a stupid joke and we’ve heard it before. No, to build the smallest LED cube, you’ll have to stuff 64 RGB LEDs into a cubic inch, like...
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World’s Smallest LED Cube – Again
There’s a new challenger on the block for the title of the “Worlds Smallest 4x4x4 RGB LED Cube“. At 13x13x36 mm, [nqtronix]’s Cube Pendant is significantly smaller than [HariFun’s] version, which...
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540 PCBs Make a Giant LED Cube
Just about anyone can make a simple LED cube. But what if you want to make a 1-meter cube using 512 LEDs? [Hari] wanted to do it, so he created two different kinds of LED boards using EasyEDA. There...
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Resistance is Futile, You Want this LED Cube
We’re suckers for a good desk toy here at Hackaday, so this 2019 Hackaday Prize entry from [Jack Flynn] certainly caught our eye. The idea is that by using professionally manufactured dual layer PCBs...
View ArticleOpenGL Shaders And An LED Cube
Back in February at the Hacker Hotel camp in the Netherlands, among the many pieces of work around the venue was a rather attractive LED cube. Very pretty, but LED cubes have been done many times...
View ArticleEpoxy LED Cube Looks Sleek, And Flashes To The Beat
If there’s one thing that’s universally popular in these polarizing times, it’s colorful glowing objects. LEDs reign supreme in this area, and we’re accustomed to seeing all manner of fun flashy...
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This Rubik’s Cube Lamp Has Some Serious Retro Style
The reassembly is handled with super glue and acrylic to diffuse the light. There’s an easy way to signal to your friends and family that you’re a successful, urbane member of society – by decorating...
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