Lead Former Makes LED Cubes a Little Easier to Build
There’s no doubting the allure of a nicely crafted LED cube; likewise, there’s no doubting that they can be a tremendous pain to build. After all, the amount of work scales as the cube of the number of...
View ArticleThis LED Cube Is One Heck Of An ICEBreaker
Like the tastes of the makers that build them, LED cubes come in all shapes and sizes. From the simplest 3x3x3 microcontroller test, to fancier bespoke installations, they’re a great way to learn a...
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Handmade LED Cube Is A Work Of Art
We see all kinds of projects come across the news desk at Hackaday. Sometimes it’s a bodge, neatly executed, that makes us laugh out loud at its simple ingenuity. Other times, it’s a case of great...
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Tiny LED Cube Packs Six Meters of Madness
When [Freddie] was faced with the challenge of building a sendoff gift for an an LED-loving coworker he hatched a plan. Instead of making a display from existing video wall LED panels he would make a...
View ArticleHackaday Podcast 035: LED Cubes Taking Over, Ada Vanquishes C Bugs, Rad...
Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get caught up on the most interesting hacks of the past week. On this episode we take a deep dive into radiation-monitor projects, both Geiger tube and...
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Giant LEDs, Ruby Lasers, Hologram Displays, and Other Cool Stuff Seen at...
Hackers from all over Europe descended upon Rome last weekend for the Maker Faire that calls itself the “European Edition”. This three-day event is one of the largest Maker Faires in the world — they...
View ArticleAmbitious LED Cube Provides Endless Video Game Scrolling; Plays Castlevania
LED cubes are all the rage right now, and rightly so given the amount of work that goes into them and the interesting things people find to do with them. Not content to make yet another...
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A LED Cube Designed for Easy Assembly
LED cubes are mesmerizing and fun, but they’re usually a pain to build. Not so with [burkethos]’s cleanly designed cube. Many cubes are put together in an elaborate sculptural style. Traditionally the...
View ArticleIt’s An LED Cube, But Maybe Not Quite What You Were Expecting
LED cubes are a pleasing ornament and still something of a talking point, but now they have reached the point of being available as inexpensive kits from China. The simpler ones don’t have quite the...
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Gyroscopic Wi-Fi LED Die is Pretty Fly
As cool as sculptural LED cubes are, the only thing you can really do is look at them. They’re not going to stand up to a lot of handling, and as tedious as it is to bend all those leads when building...
View ArticleFrom Zero to LED Cube in Less Than Seven Months
We know that LED video cubes are so last year, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still love to see them. Any project that incorporates over 24,000 LEDs is bound to be impressive, after all. But the more...
View ArticleAn LED Cube To Display CPU Vitals
LED cubes are all the rage right now. High-end hardware capable of driving large arrays keeps getting cheaper in price, and 3D printers and pre-built boards can make assembly a snap. After attending a...
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DIY LED Cube for the Masses
No matter what the size or shape of an LED, it brings out the curiosity in every hardware nerd, and is the lifeblood of badge life around the planet. Then there is the LED cube that takes LEDs to all...
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Big RGB LED Cube You Can Build Too
LED cubes are really nothing new, many of us consider the building of a good sized one almost an electronics rite of passage that not so many manage to find the time or have the skill to pull off. It’s...
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2022 Sci-Fi Contest: Glowing LED Cubes Make Captivating Artifacts
LED cubes were once an exercise in IO mastery, requiring multiplexing finesse in order to drive arrays of many LEDs. Going RGB only increased the challenge. This build from [DIY GUY Chris] shows how...
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Fail of the Week: PCB LED Cube Fails Successfully
Remember LED cubes? We sure do — they were all the rage for a while, and then it seemed like everyone just sort of lost interest in them. There are probably a lot of reasons for that, not least of...
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Very Tiny Cube Has 384 RGB LEDs
When it comes to making things that glow, there are two ways to stand out from the crowd. You can make something very big, or something very small. [DIY GUY Chris] has done the latter, producing a tiny...
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